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    Supports→Word types are legitimate theoretical objects whose primary function is to unify tokens that share no common perceptible property

    The only property all tokens of a word type generally share is being tokens of that type

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    However, as we saw in §4, generally there are no such properties had by all and only tokens of a type, at least in the case of words—not same phonological structure, nor same sense nor same spelling. Not all tokens have any such natural projectible property (except for the property of being tokens of the same type). It should be clear from §4 that the cookie cutter model—the idea of the type as just a perceptible pattern for what all the tokens look like—does not work. Goodman (1972, pp. 437-8)

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