“Names stand only for what is an elements of relaˇlity. “A Name only stands for what is an element of reality. For [W|w]hat cannot be destroye[s|d], – what remains the same throughout all change.” But what is th[at|is]? – While we were

saying
speaking

the sentence already it came into already was before our minds. We expressed

an entirely
a very

definite idea. A particular

picture
image

which
that

we wish
we want

to use. For experience does not show us these elements. We see

parts
components

of something complex things made up of parts (a chair, for instance). We say the back is a part of

a
the

chair, but isch itself made up of various pieces of wood[;| ,] whereas a foot is a simple

part
component

. We see also a whole which changes (which is destroyed) while its

parts
components

remain unchanged. These are the materials out of which we

form
produce

that picture of reality.

(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.