[[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]]] Evernote C202008041945: Book Notes from Philosophical Investigation #labels #language Cross-reference - [[202009141634 God calling things into existence]] **Naming something is like attaching a label to a thing. But what if there is no such thing? Did we just create this thing into existence?** "The word "to signify" is perhaps used in the most straight- forward way when the object signified is marked with the sign. Suppose that the tools A uses in building bear certain marks. When A shews his assistant such a mark, he brings the tool that has that mark on it. It is in this and more or less similar ways that a name means and is given to a thing.—It will often prove useful in philosophy to say to ourselves: naming something is like attaching a label to a thing.” Page 6 Philosophical Investigation