 Whereas the Tractatus has been interpreted in different ways right from its publication, for about two decades since the publication of Philosophical Interpretations in 1953 there seemed to be wide agreement on the proper way to read the book (along with the vast material from 1930 onwards in Wittgenstein’s Nachlass, gradually released over the years). Wittgenstein’s turn from his early emphasis on the role of logical analysis in his philosophical method to the later preference of particular grammatical descriptions was read, quite unanimously, as marking the two clearly distinct – “early” and “later” – phases in his thought. The later phase, it was agreed, consisted mainly of particular descriptions of our ordinary uses of words – especially those words which tend to create the illusion that they represent something profound, words which seem to point at the “essence of language.” “Whereas, in fact, if the words ‘language,’ ‘experience,’ ‘world’ have a use, it must be as humble a one as that of the words ‘table,’ ‘lamp,’ ‘door’.” (PI 97)