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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?

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...

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?