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surface, usually that of a sheet of paper. In the latter sense,
which is by far the more important sense, a "word" does not exist:
it has a higher mode of being than existence, since it is a form
that imparts utility to the existing matter in which it gets embodied. I
term any sign having the mode of being of a
form, a type, and any sign which is a single existent
object or single collection of objects, or which is a single actual occur-
rence, a token; and I recommend that the word token
be introduced into other languages to convey the same
meaning. A token which represents a type, by embodying it,
such as any particular the on a single line of a
single page of a single copy of a book, I will call for the
present an instance of their type. Perhaps somebody can

πλ
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surface, usually that of a sheet of paper. In the latter sense,
which is by far the more important sense, a "word" does not exist:
it has a higher mode of being than existence, since it is a form
that imparts utility to the existing matter in which it gets embodied. I
term any sign having the mode of being of a
form, a type, and any sign which is a single existent
object or single collection of objects, or which is a single actual occur-
rence, a token; and I recommend that the word token
be introduced into other languages to convey the same
meaning. A token which represents a type, by embodying it,
such as any particular the on a single line of a
single page of a single copy of a book, I will call for the
present an instance of their type. Perhaps somebody can