Common idea: a word has meaning by referring to
something. There is a connection between a
word & an object. What
sort of connection?
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Is it something like this:
the
word reminds us of the
object? What happens when a
thing reminds me of something? Seeing M
remind
s me of his
father.
Let's say roughly seeing
M || so &
so produces in me thoughts about
Ms father || his
father & || or
images of M
s father.
(Remark) The sentence I imagine
M is || so & so is not a
description of a picture before my
mind
's eye. Ask yourself do you
recognise
M's father || him
from the picture before your mind
's
eye?
Would you say: I see a man
with white hair etc.
I suppose
I'm imagining M.
? but perhaps
it
's only someone who looks very much like
him. There is (however) a use we
make of pictures which resembles much more that which we make of
the product of our imagination: E.g.
we describe the position of objects in a street accident
& say while drawing
, || : this
(line) is … street this (square) is the
overturned car this (cross) the policeman at the corner
etc. Here too we are using sentences of
the same form as those which would describe
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a picture || what
we believe a picture represents whereas their use is to give
a picture an interpretation. – It is useful here
to imagine that a man imagines by means of drawing or
painting
, sketching or even by producing a cartoon film. If
you said that in order to draw he must already have a
mental picture which he copies, the answer is, that the mode of
projection used to copy his mental picture is not determined
& the latter therefore
may || might be
anything, so that in fact
all that gives
us a right to speak about a
mental picture is the fact that we are under
certain circumstances inclined
to
call a (non-mental) picture a
representation of
it || a mental
one.