When we say: ‘But this is simply what we call ‘x’…’, e.g. ‘Such-and-such a result of these calculations is simply what we call a ‘necessary result’…’ or ‘Behaving like this is simply what we call ‘running’…’ – We are speaking within an existing language game, we are our taking point of departure from what we say now.
We are stating a necessity within a language game, not stating the necessity of a language game. This is immensely important, for our language games might indeed be different. The necessity we are stating when we say ‘This is simply what we call ‘x’…’ is logical in nature, but the necessity of the language game is practical in nature. Or as someone might say: The latter necessity is no necessity at all. – And there something correct in this: This necessity of a certain language game is, in one sense, beyond our reach.
The necessity within a language game is like a regulation and the necessity of a language game is like a regularity.
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