But what gives people the idea of wanting to make why should one wish to regard just this word ˇas a name, when it so obviously isn't a name? –

For this very reason
Just that

; for th[y|e]y we are inclined to make an raise an objectionion to ˇcalling “ˇa name” what is generally called “name” so; and th[e|is] objection can be

expressed by saying
put in this way

: that the name really ought to

stand for
indicate

something simple. And for this one can might give say the following reasons be defended as follows:– A proper name in the ordinary sense

is
would be

e.g.
for instance

, the word “Noth[i|u]ng ˇEscaliber”. The sword Nothung consistsed of ˇvarious parts put together in a

certain
particular

way. If they are not put together differently in a different this way then Nothung doesn't exist. Now the sentence “Nothung has a sharp edge” obviously has

sense
meaning

, whether Nothung is still whole or has been smashed to bits. Yet if “Nothung” is the name of an object, then this object doesn't exist any more when Nothung has been smashed; and since the name wouldn't then ha[v|s]e any no object corresponding to it then, it wouldn't have hasn't any meaning. But then in the sentence, “Nothung has a sha[p|r]p edge”, there

is
would be

a word

without a
that has no

meaning, and so ˇtherefore

“Nothung has a sharp edge”
the sentence

would be

would be nonsense. But ˇto say th[e|is] sentence does have meaning, and so ˇto the words of which it consists must alwaysch correspond to something.

Therefore
So that

an
the

analysis of the meaning ˇsense ◇◇◇ the word “Nothung” must disappear, and

instead of it
in its place

must come words ˇmust appear that name which stand for ˇdenote something simpleˇ objects. And [t|T]hese words we may reasonably call the real names.

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.