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“ || ‘The proposition, an extraordinary || a remarkable || a strange thing!” || ’: here we already have || this idea already contains in germ the sublimation of the whole presentation || point of view || treatment || treatment of logic || our subject. The tendency to assume a pure intermediate entity || (immaterial) entity mediating between the proposition || propositional sign || symbol and the facts. Or || ; or even || the tendency to want || try to purify, sublimate, the propositional sign itself. – For that it is a question involving ordinary things || it all happens || it's all done by most ordinary means is something we are prevented from seeing in various ways || in various ways prevented from seeing || For we are in various ways prevented from seeing that no extra || only || none but trivial things are involved by our forms of expression, which send us chasing after chimeras. || For that none but trivial & well known things are involved our forms of expression prevent us from seeing, by sending us off ◇◇ chasing after chimeras.

(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.