Talk:Ostensive definition

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This article seems to get distracted a little, and meanders off into the nether regions of semiotics and urban legend.

Rosa Lichtenstein 19:04, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have to agree with Ms Lichtenstein. If you compare this article to extensional definition and enumerative definition, this seems to contain a lot of material that hasn't much to do with the point. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.18.4.240 (talk) 16:48, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"(...) in which Wittgenstein asks if it is possible to have a private language that no one else can understand." - That is not quite true. Wittgenstein states that everyone has some kind of a private language (a beetle in the box) which no one else will understand. 131.211.232.229 (talk) 18:46, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Wittgenstein states that everyone has some kind of private language (a beetle in the box)..." - I don't think this is right. The beetle in the box is a feeling, such as pain, in Wittgenstein's analogy, not a private language. He argues that one cannot label this privately and refer reliably to it later Paul1andrews (talk) 08:01, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]