Wittgenstein's Bewitchment

Wittgenstein's influential assertion, "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language", is self-exemplifying, perhaps unwittingly. One way that a statement can bewitch is by amplifying a predicative 'is' to an equalizing one. Another is to use an objective propositional formulation to pass off an opinion as a fact. In other words, an application to this statement itself, of the kind of counter-bewitchment analysis that Wittgenstein prescribes in the Investigations, reduces it to "My current Philosophical aim is to battle against . . . etc.", just as it reduces Russell's "Logic is the essence of Philosophy" to "My Logic is the essence of my Philosophy". Wittgenstein shows here how intelligence can be bewitched by non-linguistic means as well, e. g. by inferring from one's proficiency with one tool that it is the only tool in the toolbox.