Thought
Thinking

is surrounded

by
with

a halo n[y|i]mbus. – Its

nature
essence

, – logic, –

describes
presents

an order, – the order a priori of the world, i.e. the order of the possibilities which must be ˇin common to the wor[d|l]d and to thinking thoughtˇ must have in common. But it seems as if ˇthat this order must be extremely simple. It

is
must be

prior to all experience, ˇand must run through

all
the whole ofch

experi[ne|en]ce, no empirical

dimness
muddiness

or uncertainty

must adhere
may stick

to it. [‒ ‒| –] Rather it must be of thep purest crystal. This crystal, however, does_n[o|']t appear as an abstraction, bust but as something concrete, in fact as the most concrete, as it were the hardest,

thing
that

there is.

(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.