Lexicon of Arguments

 

Quine VII (d) 67
Ostension/Pointing/Quine: is always ambiguous because of temporal vastness. Our setting of the object does not show us yet which summation of current objects (stadiums or totality) is intended. Problem: adding "this river" presumes the concept of river. Problem: "This" must also refer to something else, which is the same in the different cases.
Problem: we only know that a and b belong to the constituents. Solution: learning through induction. Problem: spatial expansion cannot be separated from temporal, because we need time when pointing. Pointing becomes superfluous in the course of science - which leads to the question of how much depends on the language.
>Pointing/Quine.
XII 56f
Ostension/Direct/Pointing/Quine: Problem: 1) how much of the environment counts?
2) how may an absent thing differ from the one that is shown to still fall under the stated term. Shifted ostension: E.g. pointing to the fuel gauge. E.g. pointing to grass to explain green. E.g. to an inscription to explain a letter. Shifted twice: Goedel number for an expression.
1) inscription of formula
2) Goedel number as a proxy for it
>Goedel Numbers/Quine.