Full Idea
Behaviourists identified concepts with a mere disposition to associate category members with a given name.
Gist of Idea
For behaviourists concepts are dispositions to link category members to names
Source
Edouard Machery (Doing Without Concepts [2009], 4.1.1)
Book Reference
Machery,Edouard: 'Doing Without Concepts' [OUP 2009], p.78
A Reaction
This is one reason why the word 'disposition' triggers alarm bells in the immediately post-behaviourist generation of philosophers. The proposal is far too linguistic in character.