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Full Idea
Putnam and Burge claim that there could be two words that a misinformed subject uses to express different concepts, but that express just one concept of the experts.
Gist of Idea
Maybe experts fix content, not ordinary users
Source
Gabriel M.A. Segal (A Slim Book about Narrow Content [2000], 3.2)
Book Ref
Segal,Gabriel M.A.: 'A Slim Book about Narrow Content' [MIT 2000], p.73
A Reaction
This pushes the concept outside the mind of the user, which leaves an ontological problem of what concepts are made of, how you individuate them, and where they are located.