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> I wholeheartedly support the noble desire to give things their proper names.

It's ironic that the Rectification of Names is central to the philosophy of Confucius.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectification_of_names

This is commonly misunderstood. The Confucian Rectification of Names is not about altering the names we use to better conform with reality, but rather about altering reality to better conform to the names we use. A very different approach than Western linguistic and political philosophy.

And it should be considered in the context of how other competing philosophies of the day treated names, like the Daoist, Mohist, and Legalist positions.

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