Full Idea
A name must represent some uniformity in experience or it names nothing.
Gist of Idea
Names represent a uniformity in experience, or they name nothing
Source
C.I. Lewis (A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori [1923], p.368)
Book Reference
Peirce,James,Dewey etc: 'Pragmatism - The Classic Writings', ed/tr. Thayer,H.S. [Hackett 1982], p.368
A Reaction
I like this because, in the quintessentially linguistic debate about the exact logical role of names, it reminds us that names arise because of the way reality is; they are not sui generis private games for logicians.