What does GetType() return on an instance of Type?

Question

I ran across this code during some debugging.

private bool HasBaseType(Type type, out Type baseType)
{
    Type originalType = type.GetType();
    baseType = Get         


        

Answer 1

The Type of a Type instance is System.RuntimeType.

    {
        Console.WriteLine(typeof(System.Type).GetType());
        Console.WriteLine(typeof(string).GetType().GetType());
        Console.WriteLine(typeof(int).GetType());
        Console.WriteLine(typeof(List).GetType());
    }

System.RuntimeType 
System.RuntimeType 
System.RuntimeType 
System.RuntimeType