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Why

should
do

we say

a
the

proposition is something

queer
extraordinarych

? On the one hand because of the immense

importance
significance

of that falls attaches to it ˇpropositions have. (And th[at|is] is so far it's correct.) On the other hand this

importance,
significance,

and
together with

misunderstandings of ˇconcerning the logic of ˇour language, mislead us into thinking the ˇthat ˇa propositions must perform something a very extraordinaryˇ feat, in fact ˇsomething a uniqueˇ feat. – Because of Through [a|A] a misunderstanding makes it seems it appears

to us
to us

that
as though

a
the

proposition d[oe|id]s does something strange.

(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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