Names and Nouns
A name is a label for any noun. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. Names are given, for example, to humans or any other organisms, places, products - as in brand names - and even to ideas or concepts. It is names as nouns that are the building blocks of nomenclature.
The word "name" is possibly derived from the Proto-Indo-European language hypothesised word nomn. The distinction between names and nouns, if made at all, is extremely subtle although clearly “noun” refers to names as lexical categories and their function within the context of language, rather that as “labels” for objects and properties.
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Famous quotes containing the words names and/or nouns:
“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)