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using names is like putting things in boxes. Some things don't fit neatly in one box, but really span multiple boxes, but you force yourself to select one box for it and then live with the wrong name. Sometimes you put things in the wrong box and then you have to live with it because there is no allowance for rearranging the names into new boxes after the fact. Other things outgrow their boxes eventually but you want to keep them where they 'belong' regardless that they are living growing things with needs other than the ones you have grown accustomed to them having. And so forth.
Considerations like this are why the Tao Te Ching starts out with an expose on the difference between the name of a thing and the 'subtleties' that you see when you look at things sans names.
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