[utopiah]

Sure if the field of study is about memorization, you did learn.

I'm not sure that exists though. There are challenges where that is indeed the entire "field", e.g. Pi digits competition, but otherwise for most if not all fields, it is about having enough knowledge to answer questions that have no yet encountered. They might be variations of questions you know but they are not verbatim the same.

Ideally learning about a field should even lead you to be able to consider, warranting you would have the resources to do so (e.g. time, experimental setup, etc), actual unanswered questions from the field.

So no, IMHO in most cases memorization is not learning.