Philosophical Investigations 550-600

557. The meaning of the brackets lies in the technique of applying them.

559. One would like to speak of the function of a word in this entence. As if the sentence were a mechanism in which the word had a particular function. But what does this function consist in? How does it come to light? For there isn't anything hidden--don't we see the whole sentence? The function must come out in operating with the word. ((Meaning-body.))

[An example - if a king is denoted in a game by double pieces (such as in checkers when pieces are stacked to denote that they can move a special way) is this part of its essence? Must a piece be doubled in this fashion to move this particular way?]

568. ((Meaning is a physiognomy.)) [Physiognomy = illustration of forms]

569. Language is an instrument. Its concepts are instruments.

570. Concepts lead us to make investigations; are the expression of our interest, and direct our interest.

[Some stuff on expectation.]

594. (I cannot accept someone else's testimony, because it is not testimony. It only tells me what he is inclined to say.)