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    It is not the case that If ostensive definition and practical mastery can anchor meaning without further semiotic mediation, the regress is not necessary but merely possible.

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    • 1.Ostensive definition requires grasping which feature the gesture picks out—itself a meaning relation needing explanation.
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    • 2.Practical mastery demonstrates competence but doesn't establish what makes that competence meaningful rather than merely habitual.
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    • 3.Claiming regress is merely 'possible' concedes it's real; if foundationalism fails, the burden shifts to explaining why these cases work.
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    • 1.Children successfully acquire language through ostensive pointing and imitation without explicit metalinguistic explanation.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein's beetle-in-the-box argument shows private definitions fail, but public ostension with practice succeeds.
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    • 3.Infinite regress only threatens if meaning requires propositional justification; embodied mastery provides non-propositional grounding.
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