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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names

12974	People who can't apply names usually don't understand the thing to which it applies [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: Someone who goes wrong in relating an idea to a name will usually go wrong about the thing he wants the name to stand for.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 2.29)
	A reaction: This seems to give tentative support to a Millian account of names, whose only content is just the thing which is named. Leibniz's observation certainly seems to be right.