type-token distinctions

A form of type-token distinction — The distinction between a type of something and an instance of it, such as city and capital city (type of city) versus city and Paris (instance of a city). (It is the difference between (1) hypernym and hyponym and (2) class and instance.)

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noun
  1. pluralplural of type-token distinction
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