Types and Tokens: On Abstract Objects
"Clearly and carefully argued, this well-informed and engaging book demonstrates the remarkable extent to which apparent reference to types pervades both everyday talk and scientific writing. Linda Wetzel provides a searching critique of nominalistic efforts to eliminate it in favor of talk about concrete tokens or instances, sets forth the elements of a challenging positive theory which takes types seriously as a distinctive kind of abstract object, and defends it against some major objections. She has made a valuable contribution to an unduly neglected topic."--Bob Hale, Professor of Philosophy, Director, Graduate Studies, University of Sheffield