  The possibilities that this strategy of ‘translating’  into a logical language opens up are enormous: we are no longer  forced to treat the surface grammatical form of a statement as a  guide to its ‘real’ form, and are provided with a means  of representing that form. This is the value of logical analysis: it  allows us to ‘analyze away’ problematic linguistic  expressions and explain what it is ‘really’ going on.  This strategy was employed, most famously, in Russell's theory  of descriptions, which was a major motivation behind the ideas of  Wittgenstein's Tractatus (see the supplementary  sections on   Russell  and   Wittgenstein).  Although subsequent philosophers were to question the assumption that there could ever be a definitive logical analysis of a given  statement, the idea that ordinary language may be systematically  misleading has remained.