This is what's expressed in the question as to the essence || nature of language, of the || a proposition, of thinking. – For if we try in our inquiries also || although in our investigations we try || are trying to understand the essence || nature of language – its function, its construction – || (its function, its construction), still it isn't that which that || the question has in view. For it sees the essence, not in || this question does not see the essence as something that is || | which lies already || which already lies open to view || before us || before us, and which by being || by a process of being put in order || by a process of ordering becomes visible at a glance. But || transparent – I mean capable of being all seen at a glance: but rather as something which lies beneath || under || under the surface. Something || , which lies within; || , which || something we see when we look || see through || into the thing, and which an analysis has to dig out.

(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.