“This↑ ⌊⌊⌋⌋ fits this↑ ⌊⌊⌋⌋1
Not
every
any
sequence of puzzles is beneficial.
  Language idles
(Socrates is mortal)
Information
“This colour matches this very nicely”

fits

this↑ fits this↑2
  “Things being
what
as
they are”
  ‘Can we imagine it not fitting?’3

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Editorial notes

1) See facsimile; both "this" with an arrow each pointing to two-forks graphic above.

2) See facsimile; both "this" with an arrow each pointing to one-fork graphic above.

3) For estimated dating June 1-June 15 1938 see the editors' dating of Wittgenstein's "Lectures on Knowledge" nos. 9 and 10, for which Ms-159,31v-32v seems to contain preparatory notes: V. Munz and B. Ritter (eds.): Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures: Cambridge, 1938-1941. From the Notes by Yorick Smythies (2017), p.33 ff.