Thinking || Thought is surrounded with || by a halo || nimbus. – Its essence || nature, || – logic, || – presents || describes an order, – the order a priori of the world, i.e. the order of the possibilities which must be common || in common to the world and to thinking || thought || the world and thinking must have in common. But it seems as if || that this order must be extremely simple. It must be || is prior to all experience, and must run through the whole of || all experience, no empirical muddiness || dimness or uncertainty may stick || must adhere to it. ‒ ‒ || – Rather it must be of the purest crystal. This crystal, however, does not || doesn't appear as an abstraction, but as something concrete, in fact as the most concrete, as it were the hardest, that || thing 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.