out-box

noun

a boxlike tray, basket, or the like, as on a desk, for holding outgoing mail, messages, or work.

Also called out-basket.

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"Suppose everyone had a box with something in it: we call it a "beetle." No one can look into anyone else's box, and everyone says he knows what a beetle is only by looking at his beetle.—Here it would be quite possible for everyone to have something different in his box. One might even imagine such a thing constantly changing.—But suppose the word "beetle" had a use in these people's language?—If so it would not be used as the name of a thing. The thing in the box has no place in the language game at all; not even as a something: for the box might even be empty.—No one can 'divide through' by the thing in the box; it cancels out, whatever it is."

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