Meaning consisting of the word referring to an object. How an object || a kind of object is hypostasized for a technique of use. This word refers
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to this→ object that word to that→ object. Explanation of the object referred to not by pointing but by explaining a technique. Colour words, shape words, etc. Under what circumstances pointing can explain i.e. convey the use of a word. Not to a baby. It learns by being drilled. There is therefore no occult act of naming an object that in itself can give a word a meaning. Words for coloured shape. Word for colour on
one side of a line.
What does ‘now’ refer to or ‘this’ or ‘I’. The private object. The naming of the private object. The private language. The game someone plays with himself. When do we call it a game. If it resembles a public game. The diary of Robinson Crusoe.
So we mustn't think that we understand the working of a word in language if we say it is a name which we give to some sort of an experience which we have. The idea is
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here: we have something it is as it were before the mind's eye (or some other sense) & we give it a name. What could be simpler? One might say || could put it roughly this way: All ostensive definition explains the use of a word only when it makes one last determination, removes one last indeterminacy.