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Single Idea 3115

[filed under theme 18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content ]

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?

The 14 ideas from Tyler Burge

9382 Subjects may be unaware of their epistemic 'entitlements', unlike their 'justifications' [Burge]
16892 Is apriority predicated mainly of truths and proofs, or of human cognition? [Burge]
16901 The equivalent algebra model of geometry loses some essential spatial meaning [Burge]
16902 Peano arithmetic requires grasping 0 as a primitive number [Burge]
9159 You can't simply convert geometry into algebra, as some spatial content is lost [Burge]
17622 We come to believe mathematical propositions via their grounding in the structure [Burge]
13479 Given that thinking aims at truth, logic gives universal rules for how to do it [Burge]
3115 Are meaning and expressed concept the same thing? [Burge, by Segal]
14349 If there are no finks or antidotes at the fundamental level, the laws can't be ceteris paribus [Burge, by Corry]
8126 Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states [Burge]
8127 Broad concepts suggest an extension of the mind into the environment (less computer-like) [Burge]
8129 Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge [Burge]
8131 Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all [Burge]
8132 We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge]