You have to remember that a name, as a label, is a mix between a socially convened shortcut and a mnemonic device. As
>>141773 said, if you can get away with calling a shab "blue" because that's her most striking characteristic and everyone understands, then there's no real need to remember her actual name, in the same way that you can get away with casually calling someone "dude" as a vocative. But if you want to call out to him while in the middle of a crowd, yeah, you'll need to ask his name, and likewise if you're spending time discussing and thinking about a person or character you'll come to learn theirs by heart.
In terms of personal names and their value (or lack thereof), the Romans had a pretty interesting system: they only regularly used some twenty or so first names, called praenomen, and several of them were literally ordinal numberals devoid of deeper meaning, so there were
a lot of Quintus and Sextus and Octavius going around. (Like Ichirou, Jirou, Saburou, or Gorou.) If you wanted to refer to a specific person and disambiguate them from the tens of thousands with the same name you'd need to use their nomen and cognomen as well, sometimes even their nickname, approaching something closer to the "Jack son-of-Mike from-Greenwood" that a lot of naming conventions have used throughout history. Look up Arabic naming conventions.
>>141773>They are a link between the subject and meaning.An interesting topic in philosophy is the nature of names assigned to things that do not exist, the standard example being Pegasus. Not necessarily
a winged horse but
the winged horse. If nobody has seen Pegasus, if its name points towards toward a certain subject that not only doesn't exist but never existed, and yet we can still perfectly communicate information about it, what does that imply for language and knowledge as a whole? There's a lot to it:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nonexistent-objects/>>141784I believe you are referring to Dunbar's number, which is about the amount of so
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