Editing Word (section)

==Philosophy==
Philosophers have found words to be objects of fascination since at least the 5th century BC, with the foundation of the [[philosophy of language]]. [[Plato]] analyzed words in terms of their origins and the sounds making them up, concluding that there was some connection between sound and meaning, though words change a great deal over time. [[John Locke]] wrote that the use of words "is to be sensible marks of ideas", though they are chosen "not by any natural connexion that there is between particular articulate sounds and certain ideas, for then there would be but one language amongst all men; but by a voluntary imposition, whereby such a word is made arbitrarily the mark of such an idea".<ref name=Locke1690>{{Cite book |last=Locke |first=John |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Essay_Concerning_Human_Understanding/Book_III#Chapter_II:_Of_the_Signification_of_Words |title=An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |publisher=Thomas Basset |year=1690 |edition=1st |volume=III |location=London |language=en |chapter=Chapter II: Of the Signification of Words}}</ref> [[Wittgenstein]]'s thought transitioned from a word as representation of meaning to "the meaning of a word is its use in the language."<ref name="Biletzki2021">{{Cite book |last1=Biletzki |first1=Anar |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021/entries/wittgenstein/ |title=Ludwig Wittgenstein |last2=Matar |first2=Anat |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |year=2021 |edition=Winter 2021 |language=en}}</ref>