When the child learns this language it has to learn the series of [“| “]numerals[”| ”] “a”, “b”, “c”, … by heart. – And it has to learn their use. Will an ostensive teaching of words

enter
come

into this

this instruction also? – Well, someone will point at slabs, for instance, and count: “a, b, c slabs”. ˇThere would be [A|a] greater similarity with between the ◇◇◇ ostensive teaching in example ([3|4]) would appear in and the ostensive teaching of numerals when if these are not used for counting but

refer to
rather to indicate

groups of objects that can be grasped

by
with

the eye. ˇIn [T|t]his is the way children learn the use of the first five or six cardinal number[.|m]erals ˇDo we teach Are “there” and “this” taught ostensively? –

Imagine
Think of

how

one
you

might teach their use. You point to places and things; – but

in this case
here

the pointing occurs in the use of the words

also
as well

, and not simply in the

teaching
learning

the use
it

. –

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.