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Simply naming things does not tell us what we are to do with words - and it is what we do with words that is really significant.

Exclamations have very different functions. Why point this out?

- One point Wittgenstein wants to make is that we are not inclined to call the word 'away', as it is used in an exclamation ('away!') the name of an object. - In fact are we ever inclined to call the word 'away' the name of an object!