token (thing) by Tem42 - Everything2.com

In philosophy a token is an single instance or occurrence. This is usually used when talking about ontology.

This writeup is a token of a writeup, this R is a token of both 'R' and of a letter. You can also have tokens of qualitative properties, such as red. Tokens are not used to refer to quantitative properties, such as weight.

Tokens are in contrast to types or kinds. A type refers to an abstract object (writeups, letters), while a token refers to a specific instance (this writeup, this R).

token passing	Token vs. Type	strtok	Monopoly as allegory for compulsive gambling
ideath: word salad	Token female geeks	The diaper pins of authority	parsing
wooden nickel	Evidence for the manufactured energy crisis conspiracy, part 1	/**/	The Third of May, 1808
worry beads	Mari Boine	String	Pool building game
Non-fungible token	The sense of the Myth of Santa Claus	The Kropak Uprising of 1873	George Washington's 1794 State of the Union Address
parse tree	Contributing to an expensive farewell gift for your rich, rich boss	C++: how the parser and the lexer fight over templates