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Re: Names

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Van E. Neie wrote:

As I was reading some the posts about this heat thing (and it seems
always to generate a lot of it), I came across a quote:

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right name."
-- Chinese Proverb


I've been squirreling away any similar quote I encountered:

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong
names of things.
- Spinoza

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for
pearls must dive below. -John Dryden


Several more are at the bottom of this page:

http://www.amasci.com/miscon/nitpik.html

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