A '''name''' is a label for a noun, normally used to distinguish one from another. Names can identify a class or category of [[things]], or a single thing, either [[unique]]ly, or within a given [[context]]. A [[personal]] name identifies a specific unique and identifiable [[individual]] [[person]]. The name of a specific entity is sometimes called a proper name (although that term has a philosophical [[meaning]] also) and is a proper noun. Other nouns are sometimes, more loosely, called names; an older term for them, now obsolete, is "general names". | A '''name''' is a label for a noun, normally used to distinguish one from another. Names can identify a class or category of [[things]], or a single thing, either [[unique]]ly, or within a given [[context]]. A [[personal]] name identifies a specific unique and identifiable [[individual]] [[person]]. The name of a specific entity is sometimes called a proper name (although that term has a philosophical [[meaning]] also) and is a proper noun. Other nouns are sometimes, more loosely, called names; an older term for them, now obsolete, is "general names". |