Sameness of Word

Miller, J.T.M.

doi:10.31820/ejap.18.2.2

Sameness of Word

Miller, J.T.M.

Authors

Dr James Miller james.miller@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor

Abstract

Although the metaphysics of words remains a relatively understudied domain, one of the more discussed topics has been the question of how to account for the apparent sameness of words. Put one way, the question concerns what it is that makes two word- instances (or tokens) instances of the same word. In this paper, I argue that the existing solutions to the problems all fail as they take the problem of sameness of word to be a problem about how one object relates to another. I propose an alternative solution to the problem of sameness of word which is instead focused on the intrinsic nature of the properties possessed by words. The result is a more thoroughgoing version of nominalism than is currently defended in the literature.

Citation

Miller, J. (2022). Sameness of Word. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 18(2), Article A2. https://doi.org/10.31820/ejap.18.2.2

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Nov 24, 2022
Online Publication Date	Dec 17, 2022
Publication Date	2022
Deposit Date	Jan 16, 2023
Publicly Available Date	Jan 16, 2023
Journal	European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Print ISSN	1845-8475
Electronic ISSN	1845-8475
Publisher	University of Rijeka
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	18
Issue	2
Article Number	A2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.31820/ejap.18.2.2