...andcheng to adjust or rectify are cognates. Primarily, the ruler rectifies names. Thus Confucius observes, If names be not correct, language is not in accordance...of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success, li andyueh (musical harmony) will not flourish. When // and yueh do not flourish, punishments will...

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...proper administration of government says that the first order of business is to rectify names, because "If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accord with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success." See Legge, Confucian Analects,...

...administering the government, Confucius suggested, is "to rectify names," for "if names be not rectified, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language is not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success" (Analects,...

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...— Scottish proverb "Do not call a fly an elephant." — Old proverb "If names are not correct and language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success." — Confucius "Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language...

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...supposed to signify. His argument about rectifying names is of central importance to understanding Confucianism: "If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things,... affairs cannot be carried on to success,... proprieties and music will not flourish, . . . punishments...