Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: April 26, 1889 - April 29, 1951
Birthday: April 26
Death: April 29
Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.
source: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.122, Univ of California Press
topic: Thinking, Different, Kind, Words You Say