If one considers we look at our example (2) one we may perhaps
get an idea of
begin to suspect
how far the
general
commonly accepted
concept of the meaning of ˇa words surrounds the
working
functioning
of language with a mist that makes clear
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clear vision it impossibleˇ to see clearly. It scatters the The fog ˇis dispersed if we study the
workings
phenomena
of language in primitive kinds cases of ˇits application,
in which it is easy
where the simplicity enables one
to get a clear view of the ˇpurpose of way ˇthe words function and of what their purpose is. the way they function.
      Primitive forms of language of this sort are what the child uses when it learns to speak. And here teaching the language does not consist in explaining but in training.