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    It is not the case that Types have a definite identity as signs despite admitting a great variety of appearances.

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

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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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