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. –

(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.