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  1. Oct 2024
    1. I tell him my real name, and feel that therefore I am known.

      Naming is such a powerful mark of identity. In it, it defers what the object/person actually is. The executions are thus called salvagings, the abusers are called Aunts as a form of a mother's harsh love, and the place of happiness is called Jezebel's. In a sense, morality is shifted (ironically) through the use of contradicting nomenclature.

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  4. Apr 2022
    1. At a higher level of grouping, we have more trouble. This is the level of DLLs, microservices, and remote APIs. We barely have language for talking about that. We have no word for that level of structure.
  5. Dec 2018
    1. Nomenclature and dassifi<:at..ion are frequently confused, howevc1; since attempts are often made to model nomencla­ture on a 1>ingle, stable system of classification principles, as for exam­ple with bot.any (Bowke1; in press) or anatomy.

      Nomenclature is an "agreed-upon naming scheme, one that does not follow any classificatory principles."

    1. Nomenclature and classification are frequently confused, however, since attempts are often made to model nomencla­ture on a single, stable system of classification principles,

      Nomenclature is an "agreed-upon naming scheme, one that does not follow any classificatory principles."