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Full Idea
As I understand it, a concept is the meaning of a grammatical predicate.
Gist of Idea
As I understand it, a concept is the meaning of a grammatical predicate
Source
Gottlob Frege (On Concept and Object [1892], p.193)
Book Ref
Frege,Gottlob: 'Translations from the Writings of Gottlob Frege', ed/tr. Geach,P/Black,M [Blackwell 1980], p.43
A Reaction
All the ills of twentieth century philosophy reside here, because it makes a concept an entirely linguistic thing, so that animals can't have concepts, and language is cut off from reality, leading to relativism, pragmatism, and other nonsense.
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] |