§81

In §81 Wittgenstein mentions one of his influences - F. P. Ramsey.

Wittgenstein says he is now opposed to the conception of the logical analysis of language and of constructing ideal languages in the manner of Frege, Russell (and himself, years before). We are not getting a more precise or scientific understanding of language (or the world) by doing such things.

It is interesting that games also appear in the list of things (including calculi) that language is compared to. Does this suggest that the comparison with games could be a misleading picture? - Presumably it could. Wittgenstein is particularly talking about things (games, calculi) with fixed rules. To get clear about language, meaning and understanding we need to get clearer about the concepts of meaning something, understanding, and thinking (rather than producing a 'sublime' conception to fit with a model).