Types and tokens : on abstract objects

Types and tokens : on abstract objects / Linda Wetzel.

There is a widely recognized but infrequently discussed distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances. In this book, Linda Wetzel examines the distinction between types and tokens and argues that types exist.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wetzel, Linda, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Type and token (Linguistics)
Language and languages > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Language and languages > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • The data
  • Types exist
  • Paraphrasing, part one: words
  • Paraphrasing, part two
  • The trouble with nominalism
  • Remarks on a theory of word types
  • A serious problem for realism?

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