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| 18265 | We don't judge by combining subject and concept; we get a concept by splitting up a judgement |
| Full Idea: Instead of putting a judgement together out of an individual as subject and an already previously formed concept as predicate, we do the opposite and arrive at a concept by splitting up the content of possible judgement. | |||
| From: Gottlob Frege (Boole calculus and the Concept script [1881], p.17) | |||
| A reaction: This is behind holistic views of sentences, and hence of whole languages, and behind Quine's rejection of 'properties' inferred from the predicates in judgements. |