We
said the connection between our thinking, or speaking, about a man
and the man himself was made when, in order to explain the meaning
of the word “Mr. Smith”
we pointed to him, saying “this is
Mr. Smith”. And there
is nothing mysterious about this connection. I
mean, there is no queer mental act which somehow conjured up
Mr. Smith in our minds when he really
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isn't
there. What makes it difficult to see that this is the
connection is a peculiar form of expression of ordinary
language, which makes it appear that the connection between
our thought (or the expression of our thought) and the thing
we think about must have subsisted
during the act of
thinking.