Lexicon of Arguments

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II 83f
Reference/Nozick: I could always point to the sun instead of using a word.
a) is then the sun referring to the sun or e.g. on a tree?
Nozick: b) it is the sun, which is to give the reference or my ostension?
((s)Strawson/(s): only humans refer, not words.)
Reference/Nozick: when the sun refers, then there must be on something else waht refers.
>Pointing, >Definition, >Definability, >Indeterminacy,
>Ostension, cf. >Rule following, >Kripke's Wittgenstein.

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