Evernote C202008041945: Book Notes from Philosophical Investigation [[0_PARA/💡 Resources & Themes/Wittgenstein/Ludwig Wittgenstein]] **Think of words like the different tools in a tool box. But the tools in the tool box look different, and we can diverse the different function. But words look uniform in appearance. Their functions are not clearly seen.** "Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screw-driver, a rule, a glue-pot, glue, nails and screws.—The functions of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects. (And in both cases there are similarities.) Of course, what confuses us is the uniform appearance of words when we hear them spoken or meet them in script and print. For their application is not presented to us so clearly. Especially when we are doing philosophy” Page 6. Philosophical Investigation, 1945 #language