The Philosophical Denial of Sameness of Meaning
just as deserving of the philosopher's attention as the more familiar analyticity that is possessed by statements which are true by verbal definition ", he is clearly wrong. For what he says makes it look as if ostensive definitions and verbal definitions were used in a precisely parallel way, a blunder the origin of which has just been exposed.' I think that I have now given some of the reasons why we need not concern ourselves with ostensive definitions. I do not