If one considers we look at our example (2) one we may perhaps

get an idea of
begin to suspect

how far the

general
commonly accepted

concept of the meaning of ˇa words surrounds the

working
functioning

of language with a mist that makes clear

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clear vision it impossibleˇ to see clearly. It scatters the The fog ˇis dispersed if we study the

workings
phenomena

of language in primitive kinds cases of ˇits application,

in which it is easy
where the simplicity enables one

to get a clear view of the ˇpurpose of way ˇthe words function and of what their purpose is. 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.