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Full Idea
It is Burge's view that what a word means should be distinguished from the concept it expresses.
Gist of Idea
Are meaning and expressed concept the same thing?
Source
report of Tyler Burge (Frege on Extensions from Concepts [1984]) by Gabriel M.A. Segal - A Slim Book about Narrow Content 3.2
Book Ref
Segal,Gabriel M.A.: 'A Slim Book about Narrow Content' [MIT 2000], p.68
A Reaction
Presumably the immediate meaning (e.g. of 'arthritis') is socially determined, while the concept is fixed by history? Or what?