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     “If a body constantly changed its weight, it would make no sense || nonsense to talk about ‘its weight’”, “If the chair behaved in this manner, we wouldn't talk about ‘a chair’”.
     “If the natural colour only lasted for half an hour, it would lose its point to talk about the ‘natural colour’ of an object.”
     Certain expressions have their sense in a certain behaviour being the rule & not the exception.
     The importance of these remarks: that it often seems as though grammar said something about objects, whereas it treats of samples. But isn't it in the nature of the world that there is such an object as blue? Isn't it in the nature … that there is a foot, a unit, etc.?
Objectification

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.




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