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    Word tokens of 'cat' are to be individuated on the basis ... — Carmelics
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    Word tokens of 'cat' are to be individuated on the basis of their being spelled 'c'-'a'-'t'

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    • 1.Spelling is what makes a token a token of 'cat' rather than another type
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    • 2.The individuation criterion for tokens follows from the criterion for type membership
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    • 1.Tokens of 'cat' written in different scripts (e.g., transliterated Arabic) can refer to the same word-type across languages, defeating spelling as the sole criterion.
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    • 2.Peirce's original type-token distinction was grounded in physical inscription patterns, not orthographic rules, making spelling a derived rather than foundational criterion.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that applying any spelling rule requires background practices, so spelling cannot be a self-interpreting individuation criterion.
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    • 2.If two communities spell a word differently by convention (e.g., 'colour' vs. 'color'), the individuation criterion must appeal to use and community norms, not spelling alone.
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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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