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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thomas brackett reed
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thunderbird and whale
tarragon sauce
tomato sauce
triage
thomas samuel kuhn
titania
tom swifty
tolstoy
transpositional pun

third generation language
tom daschle
theodore kaczynski
throughput
tca
tivo
tony mcmanus
trenton
tacticity
tobacco
national anthem of south africa

triton
titan (disambiguation)
the undertones
tom lehrer
the sophia of jesus christ
tuatha d danann
time sharing
the dagda
tuba
timothy
third epistle of john

the band
tempo
tommy james & the shondells
tunnel in the sky
trojan asteroid
tropical year
theorem
tool (band)
the six million dollar man
tory
toronto transit commission