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Spelling makes a word token a token of 'cat' rather than some other word type

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1.All tokens of 'cat' share the spelling 'c'-'a'-'t'
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2.What all and only tokens of a word have in common (besides being tokens of that word) is the criterion for type membership
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1.Spoken and mental word tokens belong to the same word types as written tokens, yet they possess no spelling whatsoever.
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2.A criterion that fails to apply to a recognized subclass of tokens of a type cannot constitute the defining criterion for membership in that type.
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1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no orthographic pattern is self-interpreting; community practice, not spelling, fixes which type a token belongs to.
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2.If spelling were criterial, a misspelled token ('catt') would determinately fail type membership, yet competent speakers routinely classify such tokens as tokens of 'cat'.
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Ideally, a theory of words and their tokens should tell us not only (i) what a word is (in the sense indicated), but (ii) how a word is to be individuated, (iii) whether there is anything all and only tokens of a particular word have in common (other than being tokens of that word); (iv) how we know about words; (v) what the relation is between words and their tokens; (vi) what makes a token a token of one word rather than another; (vii) how word tokens are to be individuated; and (viii) what ma

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Perspectives: 3 (1 for, 2 against)
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