The word symbol comes from the Greek word symbolon. In ancient Greece, a bit of pottery or other object would be broken into two pieces and kept by different people, to be used as a primitive form of authentication. Producing the other half of the symbolon was proof of identity or authenticity.

It is a little like those popular pendants tween girls buy shortly before getting in a fight and becoming enemies.

Similarly, a symbol can be seen as half of a meaning, completed by a reality the symbol is meant to indicate.

A symbol is completed by an intuition outside of language.

A token, on the other hand, is a verbal game piece whose meaning is determined by a language game. A token refers only to other tokens or combinations of tokens inside its language game.

The more our understandings are constructed from tokens, and the less they contact reality symbolically, the more abstract and unnatural these understandings feel and the more truth and reality come apart.

A person whose language is mostly tokens is in an alienated state I call wordworld.