Consider || Let
us consider for a moment the processes that we call
“games”, for instance. || ,
e.g., the processes we call
“games”.
I mean games played on a board || board-games, card games, ball games,
contests in the ring || prize
fighting || athletic contests,
etc..
What is in common to all these?
–
Don't say, || :
“there must be something in common
to them all,
otherwise || or they
would
not || wouldn't be called
‘games’”; || – but look and see whether
something is in common to all of them || them
all. –
Because || For if you look at
them, though you will
not || won't see
something || anything
that's common to all of them, but you will
see similarities, connections, – a
long string || whole lot of
them.
As I
say || said:
don't think, but look. –
Look for
instance || e.g. at
the games played on a board || board
games, with || and
their various connections || the various
connections between them.
Now pass to card games; here you will find many
points of correspondence || analogy
similarity to the first class || between this
and the first class, || ; but many
characteristic || common features
disappear, and new ones
appear.
If you now pass to ball games, much that
is || there was in common
remains, but a
lot || great deal is lost.
–
Are they all
“amusing” || ‘amusing’ || ‘entertaining’?
Compare chess with Noughts &
Crosses.
Or is there in every
case || always such a thing as winning and losing
or
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rivalry || a
competition between the players?
Think of the
games of patience. || patiences.
In ball games there is winning and losing, but
if || when a child throws the ball against the
wall and catches || is throwing || bouncing a ball
against a wall and catching it, again
this feature has disappeared || there is no
winning and losing.
See what part || Look at the
part which skill and luck play.
And what a difference there is between skill
¤in a game
of¤ chess and skill in
(a game of)
tennis.
Think now || Now
think of round || singing &
dancing games: here there
is || we have the element of
amusement || entertainment, but how
many of the other characteristic
features have disappeared!
And so || in this
way we may go through the many, many other
groups of games. Watching || –
seeing similarities show
themselves || appear and disappear.
And now the result of these considerations || observations is: We || we see a complicated net || network of similarities which overlap and cross || overlapping and crossing one another || each other. Similarities in large respects and in || the large and in the small. |
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