      The word “denote || name” || The expression “the name of an object” is probably best || very straightforwardly applied where the sign || mark || name is actually a mark on the object which it denotes || itself.
     Suppose then that there are signs || marks scratched on the tools which A uses in building. When || If A shows his assistant a sign || character of this sort, then the assistant brings the tool which bears that sign. || mark, character.
     In this and in more or less similar ways a name denotes a thing, and a name is given to a thing. (Of this more later.) – It will often prove useful if we say to ourselves in doing philosophy || in doing philosophy we say to ourselves: Naming something, that is something like hanging a name plate on || attaching a label to a thing. –

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