I say: “There's is a chair over there”; what if I walk over to ˇfetch it and want to it and want to take it and it suddenly vanishes from my

sight
view

? – “Then it wasn't a chair, but some illusion or other.” – But in a few seconds we see it again and can

touch
take hold of

it, [t|e]tc..– “

So
Then

the chair was there after all and its

disappearance
vanishing

was some sort of illusion.” – But suppose that after a time it disappear[s|ed] again, – or seem[s|ed] to disappear. – What ought we to say now? Have you ˇgot rules ready for such cases, which say whether one may ˇstill call such a thing ˇis still to be called a “ch[ir|ai]r”? But are they lost to us in our do we miss them when we use of the word “chair”; and ought we to say that we rea[,|l]ly ˇdon't attach no ˇany a meaning to this word,

as
since

we are not provided with rules for all ˇthe possibilities of its application?

(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.