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    We know about a particular word and its properties by perceiving its tokens

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    • 1.A word type has all the properties that every one of its tokens has, except for properties types cannot have (e.g., being concrete)
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    • 2.Tokens are perceptible particulars whose shared properties can be observed
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    • 1.Word types have modal and normative properties (e.g., correct spelling) that cannot be read off from any finite set of tokens.
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    • 2.Perceiving tokens only reveals how a word has been instantiated, not how it must or ought to be instantiated.
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    • 3.Therefore token-perception underdetermines the normative identity of the type, requiring non-perceptual rule-following knowledge à la Wittgenstein.
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    • 1.Frege held that abstract objects like numbers and word meanings are grasped through intellectual intuition, not sensory perception of instances.
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    • 2.If word types are abstract objects in the Fregean sense, their essential properties belong to a third realm inaccessible to empirical observation.
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    • 3.Knowledge of the type derived from token-perception would then be epistemically derivative and potentially systematically mistaken about the type's true nature.
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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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