Quine envisages a case in which translation of a language must proceed without any prior linguistic knowledge and solely on the basis of the observed behaviour of the speakers of the language in conjunction with observation of the basic perceptual stimulations that give rise to that behaviour.
The dream of human flight must have begun with observation of birds soaring through the sky.
She spent a year on Rikers Island, broke probation rules and was arrested again in 1998 charged with observation of a drug sale.
Secondly, when you're lying there wondering how to slip off, some breathing exercises, in which you fill your mind with observation of the breath coming and going, can usefully divert the restless mind.
Written in the lyric vein she had mastered over her long career, Oliver's poems astonished not with form but with feeling, with observation of the natural and the daily, and with tracing of the lines of thought.
The neurological examination combined the neurological signs of the gestational age assessment with observation of certain behaviour, such as the ability to fix and follow an object with the eyes – movements and reflexes that can be observed even in the premature baby.
(b) Comparison of the synthetics with observation of two moderate size earthquakes.
Future research might benefit from combining individual and group interviews with observation of teaching practice.
