The data -- Types exist -- Paraphrasing, part one: words -- Paraphrasing, part two -- The trouble with nominalism -- Remarks on a theory of word types -- A serious problem for realism?
Summary
There is a widely recognized but infrequently discussed distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances. In this book, Linda Wetzel examines the distinction between types and tokens and argues that types exist
