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> > If you need examples of real names which disprove any of the above commonly held misconceptions, I will happily introduce you to several. > Then why doesn'
by JadeNB 2y ago
> > If you need examples of real names which disprove any of the above commonly held misconceptions, I will happily introduce you to several.
> Then why doesn't he? I'm really curious about that last one: "People have names."
Indeed, I dare to suggest that, while there are people who don't have names, there is definitionally no real name that can disprove the misconception.
- lazide 2y agoNot sure if this exactly works, but how about ‘John Doe’?
- adwn 2y agoA "John Doe" [1] presumably still has a name, even if it's unknown to you specifically. That would be a counter-example to "You always know a person's name", not to "People have names". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe