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 o
bject 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.