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Encyclopedia > Type (metaphysics)

A type is a category of being. A human is a type of thing; a cloud is a type of thing; and so on. A particular instance of a type is called a token of that thing; so Socrates was a token of a human being, but isn't any longer since he is dead. And the letter "A" you see on this page is a token of the first letter of our alphabet.


A type is something different in logic. See Bertrand Russell's Theory of types.

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