The word “
name
denote
ˇThe expression “the name of an object” is
very straightforwardly
probably best
applied where the sign mark name is actually ˇa mark on the object
itself
which it denotes
.
      Suppose then that there are
marks
signs
scratched on the tools which A uses in building.
If
Whench
A shows his assistant a
character
sign
of this sort, then the assistant brings the tool which bears that sign. [(| // ]mark, character // .
      In this and in more or less similar ways a name denotes a thing, and a name is given to a thing. (Of this more later.) – It will often proved useful if we say to ourselves in doing philosophy: Naming something, that is something like
attaching a lable to
hanging a name plate on
a thing. –