Wittgenstein, la definicion ostensiva y los limites del lenguaje

It has been argued that in his Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein gave a picture of ostensive definitions according to which there are no relations between language and reality, i.e., between the concepts we think with and those things they represent. Were such a picture accurate, there would be no hope of getting an objective view over our conceptual scheme. In the present paper I examine Wittgenstein's remarks on ostensive definitions and conclude that attributing that view to him is a mistake. A more balanced interpretation suggests that he did nothing to convince his readers that the relations between language and reality are illusory. On the contrary, his main aim was to undermine a naive understanding of how those relations are set up.