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name

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Harry S. Truman

trivia

Denmark

state

wish

genie

one-liner

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orange (color)

tangerine (color)

orange

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incest

twin

dog owner

animal

electric eel

shrimp

wolf

mountain goat

cobra

mayfly

kitchen

junk drawer

girl

penis size

dynasty

nickname

medieval

Lancelot

Jesus Christ

cell phone

Bible

fatherhood

pregnancy

is clarifying. To learn an appropriate name for what was dim and vague (and that refuses to condense into definite form) clears up and crystallizes. Naming somehow puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive... it refuses to condense into definite form... the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account. John Dewey

is the idea that to call is not originally to name, but the other way around: Naming is a kind of calling.

To call is not originally to name, but the other way around: naming is a kind of calling, in the original sense of demanding and commending. (heidegger 'what is called thinking' 123)

is to wait for something in the place you think it will pass.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass. Amiri Baraka

is the most important part of invention. In order to create new things, it is always enough only to create new names and estimations and probabilities.

How foolish it would be to suppose that one only needs to point out this origin and this misty shroud of delusion in order to destroy the world that counts for real, so-called reality. We can destroy only as creators. -But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new things.

is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees... husbands routinely do it to wives.

is vital to wisdom --- the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

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