pointing, mapping, and other mysteries

If every rose was an individual rose there would be no rose and each of them would have another name. But then there would be no naming of anything. The finger points at the moon but can we point at pointing. As in the childrens' card game of snap, images flow over each other and await congruence.Well, you may say, pointing, mapping, comparing are meta 'activities' supervenient on the data. True but can they be taught?

A response: It is not necessary to know what we are doing. 'Doing is the mother of doing' said Samuel Johnson. So that is what I was at. Comparison is one of the Pramanas or a valid means of knowledge that is underived. This is a scandal for the Empiricist.