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“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name” (Confucius); “magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.” (LeGuin)
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OTOH: Feynman: "there is a diff between knowing a thing and knowing the name of a thing." But maybe "true name" computation is NP-hard
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It depends on the encoding...maybe the "truthiest" true names stem from the tersest encoding? The magical type encodes future & past.
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