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This article describes Wittgenstein’s conception of models. He is indeed famous for his criticism of models in that reality must yield to them. However, should one give up the use of models in favor of descriptions, as promoted apparently by the Philosophical Investigations? A detailed analysis of his remarks shows that models may have a legitimacy in the field of science in the form of norms of expression, but also in philosophy as points of comparison clarifying our language games.