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    Nikk Jones — Carmelics
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    Nikk Jones

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    Nikk Jones is a contemporary philosopher working in the philosophy of language or textual theory. Their work engages with questions of token individuation and the semantics of inscriptions, examining how a single physical mark can give rise to multiple distinct word-tokens through variant readings.

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    Analyzed the conditions under which a single inscription yields multiple distinct word-token instances

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    Contributed to debates on type/token distinctions in the philosophy of language

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    The apparent multiplication of word-tokens from a single inscription based on different readings is not a genuine mereological multiplication of entities

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