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“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.”

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names.

The popular paraphrase of the maxim, above, from The Analects of Master Kong (Kong Fu Zi, or “Confucius”), Chapter XIII, with one grammatical emendation. (The common saying has, inexplicably, the final word in singular form.)

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