I
cannot || can't
characterize these similarities better than by
the word || expression
¤ || find a better || a more
appropriate word || name for these
similarities than “family
similarities || likenesses”; for
that || this
is
the way the different || how the
various similarities
overlap and cross one another which hold between
the members of a family || between the members of a family overlap and
cross: build,
facial
characteristics || features,
the colour
of the eyes,
walk || gait,
temperament, etc. etc..–
And I shall say the
“games” || ‘games’
constitute a family.
And in the same way the kinds of numbers
, for
instance, || (e.g.)
constitute a family.
Why do we call something a “number”?
Well, perha
ps because it has a
–
direct – || (direct) kinship
with
many || to some things which
we have called numbers in the
past || , up to the present, have been called numbers; and
thereby, we may say, it
receives an indirect connection with || gets
related indirectly to other
things which we
call by the same name.
And we extend our concept of number
, as
we twist fibre on fibre in spinning a
thread || in spinning a thread we twist fibre on
fibre.
And the strength of the thread does not lie in the fact that one fibre
runs through the
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¤ whole length of it,
but in the fact that many fibres overlap.
But if someone
wished || were
to say, || said: “Then there is something
¤ common to all these
creations; || objects –
namely || viz.
the disjunction of all these common
features || properties”,
then I should answer: Here
you're || you are
merely || just playing with a
w
ord.
One might || You may just as
well say:
something runs through the
entire || whole thread
,
namely || – the uninterrupted overlapping of
these fibres.