A.
The teaching is a drill. This drill causes us to
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associate a
yellow image, yellow things, with the word
“yellow”. Th
us when I
give the order “Choose a yellow ball from this
bag” the word “yellow” might
have brought up a yellow image, or a feeling of recognition when
the person's eye fell on the yellow ball. The
drill of teaching could in this case be said to have built up a
psychical mechanism. This, however, would only be a
hypothesis or else a metaphor. We could
compare
teaching with installing an electric connection between a switch
and a bulb. The parallel to the connection going wrong
or breaking down should then be what we call forgetting the
explanation or the meaning of the word. (We ought to
talk further on about the meaning of “forgetting the
meaning of a word”).