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If one considers example (2) one || we look at our example (2) we may perhaps begin to suspect || get an idea of how far the commonly accepted || general concept of the meaning of words || a word surrounds the functioning || working of language with a mist that makes

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clear vision impossible || it impossible to see clearly. It scatters the fog || The fog is dispersed if we study the phenomena || workings of language in primitive kinds of || cases of its application, where the simplicity enables one || in which it is easy to get a clear view of the way the words function and of what their purpose is. || purpose of the words and of the way they function.
Primitive forms of language of this sort are what the child uses when it learns to speak. And here teaching the language does not consist in explaining but in training.

(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.