thoughts from a restless mind.

philphys:

“For naming and describing do not stand on the same level: naming is a preparation for description. Naming is so far not a move in the language-game — any more than putting a piece in its place on the board is a move in chess. We may say: nothing has so far been done, when a thing has been named. It has not even got a name except in the language-game. This was what Frege meant too, when he said that a word had meaning only as part of a sentence.” 

-Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

(Source: lcc.gatech.edu, via philphys-deactivated20120616)