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Full Idea
Concepts are language.
Gist of Idea
Concepts are language
Source
Willard Quine (Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis [1950], 5)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.79
A Reaction
Hm. This seems to mean that animals and pre-linguistic children have no concepts. I just don't believe that.
4973 | As I understand it, a concept is the meaning of a grammatical predicate [Frege] |
8651 | A concept is a possible predicate of a singular judgement [Frege] |
11104 | Concepts are language [Quine] |
4882 | Concepts are things we (unlike dogs) can think about, because we have language [Dennett] |
18589 | For behaviourists concepts are dispositions to link category members to names [Machery] |