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Depends on the context. If other vars are 'addess' and 'phoneNumber', 'name' looks pretty reasonable.

Hardly.

Is it a person's full name? legal name? first name? last name? nick name? desired call name? a company name? the name (alias) of the stored address?

legal name in which country? name order varies between UK and China. What's a "call"? Whose company? what kind of address?

Following this line of thinking, communication is impossible because everything is ambiguous.

> Following this line of thinking, communication is impossible because everything is ambiguous.

And making everything as ambiguous as possible makes communication easier… how?

If you're digging into that specific meaning of the word "name" (as a property of a person), you're likely doing something wrong:

> If you're digging into that specific meaning of the word "name", you're likely doing something wrong:

If you're not you're definitely doing something wrong.

> (as a property of a person)

The original comment does not specify that it's "a property of a person". It could be a company, it could be a non-specific delivery address, etc...