Wittgenstein

"Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points ? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it. ( Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, p454)