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    Supports→Shared intention to produce a token of a given word type cannot explain what makes all tokens of that word tokens of the same word.

    Intentions vary across speakers and times, so intention-based accounts entail that 'color' tokens by different communities might constitute tokens of distinct types, which is implausible.

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    implausible(the philosophical claim being evaluated as unlikely)
    Not believable or reasonable; difficult to accept as true based on logic or evidence.
    intention-based accounts(philosophy of language)
    Theories that explain the meaning of words by looking at what speakers mean or intend when they use them, rather than looking at objective facts about the world.
    tokens(Curry's formal systems terminology)
    Curry's term for the primitives of his formal systems, noted as misleading by the author
    types(Philosophy of language and ontology; contrasted with tokens)
    Abstract entities (linguistic or otherwise) of which tokens are instances; treated by Davis as structural properties.

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