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It is absolutely impossible to name anything with out a name or label, because if you did, you will be naming that and passively giving it a name/label. This is the challenge, the human mind's capabilities is limitless. Therefore it is still possible to produce an answer. So tell me, I would beg and cry to know the answer to this!

2007-04-26 18:39:21 · 7 answers · asked by Aga 2 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

Well, for everybody who posted their answers and I can only say I expected to hear the same answer I said when I was asked this question. But like I typed down before, the capacity of the human mind is endless. There could be a possibility....
Hoping to learn from you all soon!

2007-04-27 16:41:54 · update #1

7 answers

This is easy. Think of what you beg and cry for.

2007-04-26 18:45:28 · answer #1 · answered by Lord L 4 · 0 0

I think it's possible, because animals lower than humans can do it. I saw an example just earlier today, in fact.

A dove was hopping around on the ground, looking for suitable twigs and pieces of detritus to build a nest with. It would select something, then fly up to where it was building the nest and put it into place. I then saw that its mate was doing likewise. Now, birds have no language, certainly nothing to communicate the word or idea of "nest." And yet somehow, that unnamed (for them) object was communicated between the two as the goal of what they're to build.

So I guess it depends on whether unspoken communication counts in your book as "naming" something which otherwise has no spoken name.

Then there is, of course, the act of naming something for the first time. If you discover a new species of flower, for example, it will not have a name but you can name it by making up and giving it a name.

2007-04-26 19:02:38 · answer #2 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 0 0

I think there's many ways for this to be possible if it were as a reference to an object/item or to an area/specific place....... One can "name" it without actually naming it directly. "the edge of the world" for example.... meaning a generalized point in any direction beyond the horizon. Or "north", any place to the north of any particular location.

2007-04-26 19:30:44 · answer #3 · answered by Izen G 5 · 0 0

There is no answer because by naming something that cannot be named is considered naming it. Therefore everything has a name, whether we like it or not. If it is there it is named

2007-04-27 10:05:43 · answer #4 · answered by TABITHA D 1 · 0 0

What is in a name , it is just a perception.

I perceive God as a feeling and not as an object or being .
My perception as God may be different from the rest , so it does not change my feelings by naming anything otherwise as God .

Apply this paradox to myriad things as possible and you will see the truth of the Day.

2007-04-26 18:52:57 · answer #5 · answered by Prince Prem 4 · 0 1

The name given to a generic 'nothing'.
You have a 'widget'.
Pop culture has made this word represent all things that are 'nothing'. Even though they are something and may not yet be named.

2007-04-26 19:42:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Mankind has labeled everything...having named everything we have shut ourselves off from the nameless....until we cease automatically labeling we will be caught in the labyrinth of names...like a hamster on a wheel....round and round we go!

2007-04-26 18:50:36 · answer #7 · answered by Eve 4 · 0 0

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