„TLP 3.143); the proposition would be a "blend of words" (TLP 3.141). But the propositional sign is a *fact*, namely the fact "that in it its elements (the words) stand in a determinate relation to one another." (TLP 3.14) For (TLP 3.142:) "Only facts can express a sense, a set of names cannot." The essence of the propositional sign can be illustrated, for example, by the fact of an arrangement of "spatial objects (such as tables, chairs, and books)"; "the mutual spatial position of these things will then express the sense of the proposition." (TLP 3.1431) *Therefore* the way of speaking about the name–object relation must also be revised in the case of the fundamentally different proposition–state-of-affairs …"