Learning Language Is Not Just About Pointing and Naming

Quine: Learning language is not just about pointing and naming. It's that through the process of using the word tree in a propositional statement, there's a context for it. He goes through this exercise of trying to learn, youknow, imagine how you would figure out a language from somebody that doesn't speak yours at all,. And it sounds right that what you refer to augustine's position, is the starting point. But as west was saying, that ther are complexities, and that's actually his point. The language is kind of like a theory. Like lokatoche called it a research programme, or coon called it a paradime, that it's a