If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.
Chinese philosopher, founder of Confucianism
From a teaching on the Rectification of Names (Analects 13.3)
c. 551-479 BCE
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