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  • Edmund Burke
    aesthetics
    / The ontology of art

    Peirce therefore calls a a type (i.e., a formula for producing tokens).

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    Peirce therefore calls a a type (i.e., a formula for producing tokens).

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  • Max Weber
    philosophy of mind
    / Types and tokens

    ) Thoughts regarded as propositions are clearly shareable. Two people can have the same thought—e.g., that snow is white. But thoughts in this sense must be distinguished from the individual thoughts that people have at particular times, which are not shareable, even if…

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    ) Thoughts regarded as propositions are clearly shareable. Two people can have the same thought—e.g., that snow is white. But thoughts in this sense must be distinguished from the individual thoughts that people have at particular times, which are not shareable, even if…

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