Names and numerology

Names and numerology

Steven Pinker in his book ‘The stuff of Thought ‘devotes one full chapter titled ‘What’s in a name?’ really worth reading.

 “So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is an intricate structure, elegantly assembled by layers of rules and lawful even at its quirkiest. And in the sense of a listeme, a name is a pure symbol, part of a cast of thousands, rapidly acquired because of a harmony between the mind of the child, the mind of the adult, and the texture of reality.”

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Perhaps names were the only thing that tried to escape mathematics but then numerologist ensured that they didn’t.