Note: this assignment is for students in Group III only (see syllabus for a list of group assignments).
Due, as an attachment, via the “Assignments” tool on
ecommons, by midnight Thurs., May 22.
Please respond to the following question in
two pages or less (double spaced). (Needless to say this should be
your own original work.)
In “Meaning and Synoymy in Natural Languages”
(pp. 43–4), Carnap discusses two methods for determining the meaning of
the robot’s vocabulary: one method that relies on observations of the
robot’s behavior, and another called “the method of structural
analysis.” How might Quine adapt his arguments in “Ontological
Relativity” to apply to the second method, as well as the first?