Nominative determinism

Nomen est omen is a Latin phrase meaning " the name is a sign." It is usually used to mean that the name of a person or thing broken aptly, often exaggerating or ironic features. For a better understanding you can be free with "The name says it all. " Dictionary. The phrase originates from the Roman playwright Plautus (c. 250-184 BC), the ( The Persians ) used in his piece Persa the formulation nomen atque omen (Latin for " name and at the same time omen ").

Nomen atque omen was then recognized as the name spells of William of Ockham " in the philosophical nominalism " (or see through ). It is the phrase might also consider " as Begriffsontologismus of philosophical idealism ", " to save ideological prelogical souls and belief in the afterlife as a mental reservation or asylum ignorantiae ". Name magic lies as " still in the nomenclature according to the calendar saints."

Rain use of the principle that the name stands for the person who made ​​such as the creator of Asterix, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, who also simultaneously characterize the person with the name. As examples:

Idiom Ontology Calendar of saints Asterix and the Roman Agent
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