Look into this language-game and see if you can find the mysterious
relation of the object and its name. ‒ ‒
The relation of name and object we may say, consists in a scribble
being written on an object (or some other such very trivial
relation), and that's all there is to it.
But we are not satisfied with that, for we feel that a scribble written
on an object in itself is of no importance to us, and interests us in no
way.
And this is true; the whole importance lies in the particular use
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we make of the scribble written
on the object, and we, in a sense, simplify matters by saying that the
name has a peculiar relation to its object, a relation other than that,
say, of being written on the object, or of being spoken by a person
pointing to an object with his finger.
A primitive philosophy condenses the whole usage of the name into
the idea of a relation, which thereby becomes a mysterious
relation.
(Compare the ideas of mental activities, wishing, believing,
thinking etc., which for the same reason have something
mysterious and inexplicable about them.)