Common idea: a word has meaning by referring to something.
     There is a connection between a word & an object. What sort of connection?

Ms-166,23r

Is it something like this: the word reminds us of the object? What happens when a thing reminds me of something? Seeing M reminds me of his father. Let's say roughly seeing M || so & so produces in me thoughts about M^s 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.

Ms-166,23v

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

Ms-166,24r

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

Ms-166,24v

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.