But imagine this further case:
39). A certain system of
communication is used by a tribe.
I will describe it by saying that it is similar to our game
38) except that no table is used in the training.
The training
might have consisted in several times leading
the pupil by the hand along the path one wanted him to go.
But we could also imagine a case:
40). where even this training
is not necessary, where, as we should say, the look of the letters
abcd naturally produced an urge to move in the way
described.
This cause at first sight looks puzzling.
We seem to be assuming a most unusual working of the mind.
Or
we may ask || perhaps we ask, “How on
earth is he to know which way to move if the letter
a is shewn
him”?
But isn't B's reaction in this case the very
reaction described in 37) & 38), & in fact our
usual reaction when for instance we hear and obey an order?
For, the fact that the training in 38) & 39)
preceded the carrying out of the order does not change the
process of carrying out.
In other words the “curious mental mechanism” assumed
in 40) is no other than that which we assumed to be
32.
created by the training in 37)
and 38).
“But
could such a mechanism be born with
you?”
But did you find any difficulty in assuming that
that
mechanism was born with B, which enabled him to respond to the
training in the way he did?
And remember that the rule or explanation given in table 33) of
the signs abcd was not essentially the last one, and that we might
have given a table for the use of such tables, and so on.
(Cf. 21)).