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ˇThere can't be [A|a] vagueness in logic – we want wish to say. – is something that can't be. We live now in the idea: the ideal “must” be there found lie in reality in reality the real world. – While we don't yet see how it

lies in it
is there

// how it has a place there // , and don't understand the nature of this “must”. We believe

:
, –

it must

lie
be

in the real world, for we

believe to we see it there already
think we already see it there

.
In our thoughts [t|T]he ideal, , sits firm and immovable. You can't step

outside
out of

it. You always have 've got to go back again. There is no outside; outside

you can't breathe
there's no air

. – Whence ˇall this? ˇHow does this queer situation arrise? The idea,, rests sits as

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as it were, on our nose ˇsits as ˇlike a pair of spectacles, and whatever we look at we see through

them
it

. It never enters our head to take them off.
How can I understand the

sentence
proposition

now,

when
if

the analysis is supposed to be able to show whatch ˇit is I really understand? – Here the idea of understanding as a

strange
peculiar

mental process enters in.
The strict, andch clear rules of the logical construction of

a
the

proposition appear to us as something in the back ground, –

lodged
embedded

hidden in the medium of understanding. I seem them now already (even thou[h|g]h through a medium) I see them even now (although through a medium), since I understand the sign, mean something

by
with

it. The ideally

rigorous
rigid

construction appears to me as something concrete: – I had used a simile; becaus but because of the grammatical illusion, that to the

genel name
concept word

there corresponds one thing,

that which
what

is in common to all

the
its

objects falling under it, it did not seem to be a simile.

(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.