An element in the simplicial homotopy group

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I am confused with this construction in Goerss Jardine's Simplicial Homotopy Theory, pg. 26+27

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Is not $v$ a $0$-simplex? So I suppose we define $v_i$ as the composition $\Delta^n \rightarrow \Delta^0 \xrightarrow{v} X?$