How one conceptualises something may well affect the way you use it.
"...someone who sees the schematic drawing of a cube as a plan figure consisting of a square and two rhombi will perhaps carry out the order, 'bring me something like this!' differently from someone who sees the picture three-dimensionally".
The person who sees it as a plane figure might bring a flat object in the shape of the outline of the image above.
Presumably, given the context of this comment, Wittgenstein wants to make a point about how we take explanations of what a word means. - That there is a connection between the way in which someone understands a word and how they use it.
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