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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 5. Concepts and Language / b. Concepts are linguistic

[claim that without language there are no concepts]

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As I understand it, a concept is the meaning of a grammatical predicate [Frege]
A concept is a possible predicate of a singular judgement [Frege]
Concepts are language [Quine]
Concepts are things we (unlike dogs) can think about, because we have language [Dennett]
For behaviourists concepts are dispositions to link category members to names [Machery]