Let us now consider these two games:
42). A gives orders to
B: they are written signs consisting of dots and dashes and
B executes them by doing a figure in dancing with a particular
step.
Th
us the order “-.” is to be carried
out by taking a step and a hop alternately; the
order “..---” by
alternately taking two hops and three steps, etc.
The training in this game is “general” in the sense
explained in 41); and I should like to say, “the orders given
don't move in a limited range.
They comprise combinations of any number of dots and
dashes”. ‒ ‒
But what does it mean to say that the orders don't move in a
limited range?
Isn't this nonsense?
Whatever orders are given in the practice of the game constitute the
limited range. ‒ ‒
Well, what I meant to say by “the orders don't move
in a limited range” was that neither in the teaching of the game
nor in the practice of it a limitation of the range plays a
“predominant” r
ole (see 30)) or, as we might
say, the range of the game (it is superfluous to say
35.
limited) is just the extent of
its actual (“accidental”) practice.
(Our game is in this way like 30)) Cf. with
this game the following:
43). The orders and their
execution as in 42); but only these three signs are used:
“-.”,
“-..”,
“.--”.
We say that in 42) B in executing the order is
guided by the sign given to him.
But if we ask ourselves whether the three signs in 43) guide B
in executing the orders, it seems that we can say both yes and no
according to the way we look at the execution of the orders.