But let us look at an example; consider this language-game:
A sends B to various houses in their town to fetch goods of
various sorts from various people.
A gives B various lists.
On top of every list he puts a scribble, and B is trained to go
to that house on the door of which he finds the same scribble, this is
the name of the house.
In the first column of every list he then finds one or more scribbles
which he has been taught to read out.
When he enters the house he calls out thes
e words, and
every inhabitant of the house has been trained to run up to him when a
certain one of these sounds is called out, these sounds are the names of
the people.
He then addresses himself to each one of them in turn and shews to each
two
147.
consecutive scribbles
which stand on the list against his name.
The first of these two, people of that town have been trained to
associate with some particular kind of object, say, apples.
The second is one of a
row || series of scribbles which each
man carries about him on a slip of paper.
The person thus addressed fetches
, say, five apples.
The first scribble was the generic name of the objects required, the
second, the name of their number.