Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 ggr 02/21/84; site pyuxbb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!pyuxbb!rld From: rld@pyuxbb.UUCP (Bob Duncanson) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: About synonymy Message-ID: <386@pyuxbb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 05:44:12 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxbb.386 Posted: Thu Apr 5 05:44:12 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Apr-84 02:15:48 EST References: <2219@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway Lines: 15 ==> > As usual, let's have some distinctions. I think the > one we need today is the type/token distinction. Regardez: > > (1) sheep sheep > > How many *words* on line (1)? If you answer "two", then > you're counting word *tokens*; if you answer "one word, > repeated twice", then you're counting word *types*. I see two words. One is singular, the other is plural. -- Bob Duncanson AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway NJ {eagle,allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!pyuxbb!rld