This is connected with the

idea
view

of naming as, so to speak, an occult processˇ, as it were. The [n|N]aming appears as seems seems to us like ˇto be a strange connection of between a word with the and an object. –

a word

and an
with the

object. – And

a
this

strange connection does really take place is made

–
,

namely when the philosopher, in order to

see
bring out

what thech connection is between a name and

a
the

thing named, stares an an object before him, and at the same time repeat[s|ing] a name – or it maye be the word “this” – over and over again. For thech philosophical problems arise when language id[e|l]es. And then ˇindeed we may its easy to even imagine well enough that naming is some

queer
remarkable

mental act, as it were a kind of christeningˇ, as it were, of the object. And similarly we may then also say the w[r|o]rd “this” as it were to the object, addressˇing it

–
,

a/strange use of this word, that probably occurs which, I thinkm is never is made only when we are outside doing engaged in [P|p]hilosoph[[y|i]|y][. –|sing]. –

(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.