You say that it's obvious to you that there's something the word pain means. But it doesn't satisfy you || you're not satisfied, for in the next moment you think || can imagine that it might be any
number of things corresponding to the word “pain”, & then again that there is not anything corresponding to the word “pain” but that what seemed to correspond to it was really part of the experience of saying it; etc..
     In other words the pictures vary & replace one another, whereas the language game however remains,
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only it doesn't really seem to interest us. If it did we wouldn't philosophize.

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.



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