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       Suppose someone said, : “All tools serve to modify something. Thus the hammer modifies the position of the nail, the saw the
shape
form
 of the board, etc..” – And what is modified by the ruler, the glue pot, the nails? // And what's does does the ruler modify, or the glue pot, or the nails? – “Our knowledge of the length of
a
the
 thing, the temperature of the glue and the firmness of the
box
chest
.” – Would anything be aained by this assimilation under one of our expressions? –
 

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.



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