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It is necessary to get down to the application, and then the concept finds a different place, one which, so to speak, one never dreamed of.)

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Suppose I shew someone various multicoloured pictures, and say: 'The colour you see in all these is called 'yellow ochre' '.—This is a definition, and the other will get to understand it by looking for and seeing what is common to the pictures.

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So, in accordance with these rules, which deal with signs, we write the series x, /'x, /'/'x, /'/'/'x, ..., in the following way /0'x, /0+1'x, /0+1+1'x, /0+1+1+1'x, ...

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The language-game 'I mean (or meant) this' (subsequent explanation of a word) is quite different from this one: 'I thought of ...

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The fact that the lots are drawn by the use of a cake is particularly horrible (almost like betrayal with a kiss,) and that it strikes us this way is again of fundamental importance for the investigation of such practices.

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In the one case the thought in the sentence is something common to different sentences; in the other, something that is expressed only by these words in these positions.

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'But the point is, the words felt to him like the words of a language he knew well.'—Yes: a criterion for that is that he later said just that.