Let us first consider a case of ostensive definition in a public language.
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Wittgenstein rejects the idea that ostensive definitions can provide us with the meaning of a word.
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Early in " The Investigations ", Wittgenstein attacks the usefulness of ostensive definition.
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So memory scepticism could be applied with equal effect to ostensive definitions given in a public language.
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Another is that " an ostensive definition can be variously interpreted in " every " case ".
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Another important category of definitions is the class of ostensive definitions, which convey the meaning of a term by pointing out examples.
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An everyday ostensive definition is embedded in a public language, and so in the form of life in which that language occurs.
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This is similar to an ostensive definition, in which one or more members of a set ( but not necessarily all ) are pointed out as examples.
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Wittgenstein argues for this making a series of moves to show that to understand an ostensive definition presupposes an understanding of the way the word being defined is used.
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We can " justify " our use of the new name "'T "'by making the ostensive definition more or less explicit.