(Remark: It has been suggested that such words as
“there”,
7.
“here”,
“now”, “this” are the
“
real proper names” as opposed to what in
ordinary life we call proper names, & in the view I am referring
to, can only be called so crudely.
There is a widespread tendency to regard what in ordinary life is
called a proper name only as a rough approximation of what ideally
could be called so.
Compare Russell's idea
of the “individual”.
He talks of individuals as the ultimate co
nstituents of
reality, but says that it is difficult to say which things are
individuals.
The idea is that further analysis has to reveal this.
We, on the other hand, introduced the idea of a proper name in a
language in which it was applied to what in ordinary life we call
“objects”, “things”
(“building stones”).