I was pointing things out to my 7.5 week old son yesterday (toes, feet, hands, nose, the aeroplanes in the mobile) when I realised that I had never explained what pointing was. I used my right hand to point at my left hand pointing at the mobile and explained 'Pointing. Pointing.'
It's a hard thing, to understand. Kant and Heidegger have it right. You need faculties for interpreting the world, and then you need a lot of familiarity with the world.
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