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    Types have a definite identity as signs despite admitting a great variety of appearances.

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    • 1.The symbol '&', the word 'and', and its spoken sound are all one word (one type).
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    • 2.A legisign has a definite identity though it admits a great variety of appearances.
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    • 1.Type identity depends on community-relative conventions, making it indeterminate across linguistic communities (Wittgenstein, PI §201).
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    • 2.If identity conditions are convention-relative, no single type has a definite identity independent of a particular interpretive practice.
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    • 1.Quine's inscriptionalism holds that only concrete tokens exist; positing types as abstract objects with definite identity is ontologically profligate.
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    • 2.The explanatory work attributed to type-identity can be fully discharged by similarity relations among tokens, eliminating the need for types.
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    It wouldn't do to ignore what the coiner of the type-token distinction had to say about types. Unfortunately it cannot be adequately unpacked without an in-depth explication of Peirce's semiotics, which cannot be embarked upon here. (See the entries on Charles Sanders Peirce and Peirce's theory of signs.) Peirce said types “do not exist”, yet they are “definitely Significant Forms” that “determine things that do exist” (4.423). A type, or “legisign” as he also calls it, “has a definite identi
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