A Rose by Any Other Name
On the Relationship Between Names, Objects, and Mental Images
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet — Juliet
I don’t know about you, but I have always wondered about these famous lines from Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. This phrase, now cemented in our cultural minds, claims that words and their meanings lack a necessary connection. …
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