Types and tokens : on abstract objects / Linda Wetzel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wetzel, Linda, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Type and token (Linguistics).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Data

2 Types Exist

3 Paraphrasing, Part One: Words

4 Paraphrasing, Part Two

5 The Trouble with Nominalism

6 Remarks on a Theory of Word Types

7 A Serious Problem for Realism?

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-26614-8

1-282-69481-2

9786612694813

0-262-25927-3

OCLC:

460168162