Please edit the following answers to the questions using the following feedback: It would help question 1 to discuss how the Churchlands think that whether or not the syntax of connectionist networks may be sufficient for semantics is an empirical question, a question that would require a posteriori evidence to settle, and one that cognitive scientisits are currently working on. They think Searle begs the question by appealing to mere a priori evidence to claim that connectionism will not work. Question 2 you have mostly right. It’d help to go into more depth. The point is that while being a basketball is not itself a necessary condition for being sports equipment, basketballs have meet or satisfy all conditions that are necessary for being sports equipment. These necessary conditions are independent of the property of being a basketball. The physical symbol system claims that being a PSS is itself and in its own right a necessary condition for being able to exhibit intelligent aciton. Q3: Systematicity of language is the feature of language that if a given sentence is grammatical, meaningful, for example the sentence “John loves Mary,” then indefinitely many other sentences will also be grammatical and meaningful, like “Mary loves John,” “John loves pasta,” etc. The best explanation of why it follows from the fact that one sentence is grammatical that indefinitely many other related sentences are grammatical is that sentences are built up from components according to recursive rules, . language has a syntactic structure. The systematicity of thought is that: the fact that a thinker can think one thought, for example the thought that Broccoli is delicious, seems to guarantee that a thinker can think that pizza is delicious, that icecream is delicious, in shortthat anything of which they have a concept is delicious. The best explanation for why being able to think one thought necessitates being able to think indefinitely more is that thoughts are built up from component representations according to recursive rules much like sentences are built up from words according to recursive rules.
