Expressions and their representations

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 195, 1999, Pages 145-163

  Szabó, Zoltán Gendler ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology

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EID: 60949135078     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9213.00134     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. W.V.O. Quine, 'Type versus Token', in his Quiddities: an Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary (Harvard UP, 1987), pp. 216-19
2. The type/token distinction is originally due to Peirce: see 'Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmatism', in C. Hartshorne and P. Weiss (eds), Collected Papers of C.S. Peirce (Harvard UP, 1933), Vol. IV, pp. 411-63
3. The problem is raised by S. Bromberger, 'Types and Tokens in Linguistics', in A. George (ed.), Reflections on Chomsky (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), pp. 58-89. This paper was what set me thinking about types and tokens
4. For views which come close to explicit endorsement of the instantiation view, see Bromberger; also C.L. Stevenson, 'On "What is a Poem?"', Philosophical Review, 66 (1957), pp. 329-62
5. N. Wolterstorff, 'On the Nature of Universals', in M. Loux (ed.), Universals and Particulars: Readings in Ontology (Notre Dame UP, 1970), pp. 206-34
6. For example, S. Haack, Philosophy of Logics (Cambridge UP, 1978), p. 75
7. See, e.g., the debate between P. Hugly and C. Sayward, 'Expressions and Tokens', Analysis, 41 (1981), pp. 181-9
8. and P. Simons, 'Token Resistance', Analysis, 42 (1982), pp. 195-203
9. See Hugly and Sayward p. 187
10. D. Davidson, 'Quotation', in his Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Oxford UP, 1984), pp. 79-92
11. C. Peacocke, A Study of Concepts (MIT Press, 1992), p. 103
12. These points are emphasized in J. Bennett, 'Quotation', Noûs, 22 (1988), pp. 399-418
13. D. Kaplan, 'Words', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol. 64 (1990), pp. 93-120
14. A. McIver, 'Token, Type and Meaning', Analysis, 4 (1937), pp. 58-64
15. and W. Sellars, 'Abstract Entities', in Loux pp. 156-205, are advocates of this view. Sellars goes as far as suggesting that types are trans-linguistic entities
16. P. Grice, 'Meaning', in his Studies in the Way of Words (Harvard UP, 1957), pp. 213-23
17. This example is prompted by the discussion in A. Gupta, The Logic of Common Nouns (Yale UP, 1980), p. 23. He takes a very different line from the one I am advocating here
18. This is suggested by M. Krifka, 'Four Thousand Ships Passed Through the Lock: Object-induced Measure Functions on Events', Linguistics and Philosophy, 13 (1990), pp. 486-520
19. Such concerns are voiced by S. Stebbing, 'Sounds, Shapes and Words', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol. 14 (1935), pp. 1-21