"When I say "My broom is in the corner", is this really a statement about the broomstick and the brush? Well, it could at any rate be replaced by a statement giving the position of the stick and the position of the brush. And this statement is surely a further analysed form of the first one. But why do I call it "further analysed"? Well, if the broom is there, that surely means that the stick and brush must be there, and in a particular relation to one another; and previously this was, as it were, hidden in the sense of the first sentence, and is articulated in the analysed sentence. Then does someone who says that the broom is in the corner really mean: the broomstick is there, and so is the brush, and the broomstick is fixed in the brush? a If we were to ask anyone if he meant this, he would probably say that he had not specially thought of either the broomstick or the brush. And that would be the right answer, for he did not mean to speak either of the stick or of the brush in particular. Suppose that, instead of telling someone "Bring me the broom!", you said "Bring me the broomstick and the brush which is fitted on to it!" a Isn’t the answer: "Do you want the broom? Why do you put it so oddly?" (PI 60)
The usefulness (for whom? remains to be discussed) of "climate" as a concept is in the association with other situations that can not be sat out (weather can be sat out, think of a thunderstorm). We understand what is meant when somebody is speaking of a climate of change, a climate of anxiety, or a climate of fear.
Wittgenstein might have enjoyed this:
"When I say "My broom is in the corner", is this really a statement about the broomstick and the brush? Well, it could at any rate be replaced by a statement giving the position of the stick and the position of the brush. And this statement is surely a further analysed form of the first one. But why do I call it "further analysed"? Well, if the broom is there, that surely means that the stick and brush must be there, and in a particular relation to one another; and previously this was, as it were, hidden in the sense of the first sentence, and is articulated in the analysed sentence. Then does someone who says that the broom is in the corner really mean: the broomstick is there, and so is the brush, and the broomstick is fixed in the brush? a If we were to ask anyone if he meant this, he would probably say that he had not specially thought of either the broomstick or the brush. And that would be the right answer, for he did not mean to speak either of the stick or of the brush in particular. Suppose that, instead of telling someone "Bring me the broom!", you said "Bring me the broomstick and the brush which is fitted on to it!" a Isn’t the answer: "Do you want the broom? Why do you put it so oddly?" (PI 60)
The usefulness (for whom? remains to be discussed) of "climate" as a concept is in the association with other situations that can not be sat out (weather can be sat out, think of a thunderstorm). We understand what is meant when somebody is speaking of a climate of change, a climate of anxiety, or a climate of fear.