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This digital edition is a normalised version of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass Ts-309 (so-called Blue Book) produced with the Interactive Dynamic Presentation tool[N] provided by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB). This original-language text is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. Ludwig Wittgenstein Blue Book | (Ts-309,1) What is the meaning of a word? Let us attack this question by asking, first, what is an explanation of the meaning of a word; what does the explanation of a word look like? The way this question helps us is analogous to the way the question “how do we measure a length?” helps us to understand the problem, “what is length?” The questions, “What is length?”, “What is meaning?”, “What is the number one?” etc., produce in us a mental cramp. We feel that we can't point to anything in reply to them and yet ought to point to something. (We are up

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