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Ideas for 'Philosophical Essay on Probability', 'Idealism: a critical survey' and 'Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis'

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

11104	Concepts are language [Quine]
	Full Idea: Concepts are language.
	From: Willard Quine (Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis [1950], 5)
	A reaction: Hm. This seems to mean that animals and pre-linguistic children have no concepts. I just don't believe that.

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

11102	Apply '-ness' or 'class of' to abstract general terms, to get second-level abstract singular terms [Quine]
	Full Idea: Applying the operator '-ness' or 'class of' to abstract general terms, we get second-level abstract singular terms.
	From: Willard Quine (Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis [1950], 5)
	A reaction: This is the derivation of abstract concepts by naming classes, rather than by deriving equivalence classes. Any theory which doesn't allow multi-level abstraction is self-evidently hopeless. Quine says Frege and Russell get numbers this way.