'A psychological regularity to which no physiological regularity corresponds?': Some remarks on understanding and learning

With Ludwig Wittgenstein readers may be concerned about the underlying conception of psychological attributes as states or processes in the brain, and there is a particular view of representation that they might find troubling too. It's important to remember that there are many different general ways that readers use the words ‘understand’ and ‘understanding’. Wittgenstein noted that ‘one could say: to understand a word means to know how to use it.’ Wittgenstein is reported as stressing that ‘to understand a phrase, readers might say, is to understand its use’, and ‘one could say: to understand a word means to know how to use’. He also emphasises in OC §10 that ‘it is only in use that the proposition has its sense’