It is as though we had to

see
look

through the phenomena: our enquiry

, on the other hand,
, however,

is is/n['|o]t isn't directed not upon ˇis not one into the phenomena, but rather, – as we might say, – upon into the [“| ‘]possibilities[”| ’] of phenomena. We recollect [t|T]hat's isˇ to say, we call to our mind, the kind o[s|f] statements that we make about the phenomena. Thus Augustine calls to mind the various statements which one ma[k|d]es about the duration of events, about their events pastˇevents, present or future. (Theseˇ statements, of course, are not philosophical statements about time, past, present and fu[r|t]u[t|r]e.)
Our

examination
view

ˇinvestigation is th[us|ere]fore a grammatical one. And thisch

examination
view

investigation it brings light into our problem by clearing away misunderstandings. Misunderstandings, namely, which concerning the use of the words of our language, and which are brought about by analogies (which hold﹖) between our ˇdifferent forms of expression. – And one can remove these misunderstandings ˇcan be removed by replacing a certain forms of expression by

by others.

This may be called
We may call this

“analysing” our forms of expression,

for
since

the procedure sometimes bears a resembl[an|es]ce to taking something to pieces. that of an analysis.

Thus it may
It may now

seem, however, as though there

was
werech

something like an ultimate analysis of our forms of speech,

linguistic forms,
expression,

ˇ & therefore one compl[t|e]tely analysed

state of these expressions
form of the expression

. That is: ˇit may seem as though our usual forms of expression were, essentially, still unanalysed; as though something were hidden in them which has to be brought to light: // which has to be brought out into the light. // //

if
Once

this

were
has been

done,

language would be
the expression is

completely

clarified
explained

and our problem is solved.

This can be put as follows:
We may put it also in this way:

[We| we] remove misunderstandings by making our expression more◇ exact: [B|b]ut ˇthus it may seem as though we were trying to reach

a
one

particular state, that of perfect exactness; ˇand as though th[at|is]ch were the real aim of our

investigation.
inquiry.

(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.