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But what if someone
objected, :
“It
is_n[o|']t true that someone
you must ˇalready have mastered a
language game already in order to understand
an ostensive definition, butch
only he's has
only – obviously – ˇof course, you've
got to know (or
guess) what the person
explaining ˇman who gives the explanation
is pointing to[.|:]
ˇe.g.,
[W|w]hether, for
instance, to the
of
object, or to its
co[,|l]our, or to the number ˇof ˇthe
objects, [t|e]tc.,
etc..” – And what does
“pointing to the
”,
“pointing to the colour” etc.
consist in, then? Point to a piece of
paper. – And now point to its
, –
now to its colour, – now to its number
(that sounds queer). – Well, how did you do
it? – You will say you
“meant” something different each time you
pointed. And if I ask
you how that takes place this is
done ˇyou do this, you will say you
directed concentrated
your attention on the colour, on the
etc.. But
I ask again how
th[at|is]
Suppose someone points to a vase
and says, “Look at
th[at|is]
marvelous
blue! – the shape doesn't matter.”
– Or, “Look at
th[e|is]
shape! – the
colour''
is unimportant.”
– Undoubtedly y[p|o]u will do
ˇsomething different things
in each case if
you do
what he asks you comply with both these requests | . But do you always do the
same ˇthing when you direct your
attention to the colour? Imagine various
cases – e.g.
these: – I will suggest
some: |
“Is this blue the same as that? Do
you see a 23 see a
difference?” – You are mixing
paints on a palette colours |
and you say, “This blue of the
sky is hard to .”
“It[s|']s going to be
fine, you can see the blue sky already
again.” “Look what
different effects these two blues give.”
“Do you see
th[e|at]
blue book over there? Please
it.” “This blue
signal light means …”
“What'[i|s]s this blue called?
– is it “indigo”–?”
Directing the attention to the
colour sometimes means shutting out the outlines of
shape with
hand, or, not ˇlooking
direct[in|ly]g one's
gaze at the contour of the thing; sometimes ˇit
means starring at the thing and trying to
remember where one has seen this colour before. You
direct your attention to the ˇshape of a thing,
sometimes by
it,
sometimes by half closing the
eyes squinting | ˇscrewing up the eyes so as
not to see the colour clearly, etc.,
etc.. I
to sayˇ
that: this and things like it is the
sort of thing that happens
while one you
[“|‘]directs the
one's your attention to .
But th[at|is] is not the only
thing that allows it isn't just this which
makes us to say, ˇ that someone is directing his attention to the
shape, to the colour, etc..
Juts as
“making a move in chess”
does_n[o|']t ˇonly consist in
the fact that pushing a piece is
from pushed accross the board in such
and such a way here to there –
in the
thoughts and feelings that accompany the move in the person
making it – but rather in the circumstances that we call
“ a ”, or
“solving a chess problem”, and
.
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