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    Supports→Intention helps identify which type a token is a token of, but cannot explain what the word type itself is.

    Intentions are useful for token-identification but are circular when applied to type-individuation.

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    However, the final nail in the coffin for the suggestion according to which all tokens of the same word have the "same sound" is that words can be mispronounced. As Kaplan (1990) has argued, a word can suffer extreme mispronunciation and still be (a token of) the same word. He asks us to imagine a test subject, who faithfully repeats each word she is told. After a time, we put filters on her that radically alter the results of her efforts. Nonetheless, we would say she is saying the word she hea

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