"We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
And this description gets its power of illumination—i.e. its purpose—from the philosophical problems.
These are, of course, not empirical problems; they are solved rather by looking into the workings of our language, and that in such a way as to make us recognize those workings: in despite of an urge to misunderstand them. The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
-Wittgenstein, in Investigations, 1954
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