Let us return to 39).
Someone visits the tribe and observes the use of the signs in
their language.
He describes the language by saying that its sentences consist of the
letters abcd used according to the table: (of
33)).
We see that the expression, “A game is played according
to the rule so-and-so” is used not only in the variety
of cases exemplified by 36), 37), & 38), but even
in cases where the rule is neither an instrument of the training nor of
the practice of the game, but stands in the relation to it in which our
table stands to the practice of our game 39).
One might in this case call the table a natural
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law describing the behaviour of
the people of this tribe.
Or we might say that the table is a record belonging to the natural
history of the tribe.