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A name is a term used for identification.
Description
Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context.
A personal name identifies, not necessarily uniquely, a specific individual human.
The name of a specific entity is sometimes called a proper name (although that term has a philosophical meaning also) and is, when consisting of only one word, a proper noun.
Other nouns are sometimes called "common names" or (obsolete) "general names".
A name can be given to a person, place, or thing. For example, parents can give their child a name, or scientist can give an element a name.
Quotations
Confucious (circa 500 BC):
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
See also
External links
- Name @ Wikipedia
- Names that break databases @ Boing Boing
