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    It is not the case that Spelling makes a word token a token of 'cat' rather than some other word type

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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