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"Thinking is surrounded by a nimbus." (Does he mean that thinking is cloudy (unclear/vague) or that in thinking about thinking we have to get past cloudiness/vagueness - to get to the order of logic?)
The world does not contain vague objects and logic, as mirror of the world, must then be utterly crystal clear and certain (this kind of reasoning appealed to Wittgenstein when he was caught up in the Tractarian picture/model). - In this passage Wittgenstein is not stating his mature view, he is looking at his own earlier way of thinking.
What do you think W means by a 'humble use' - that these philosophical words must have a use as humble as 'table' and 'lamp'? The latter ones all refer to ordinary physical objects, and I have a hard time seeing how 'experience' and 'world' are supposed to have as humble a use.
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