Concepts

 

If names are correct, there is order; if names are allowed to become confused, there is disorder. What causes the confusions of names are explanations that involve an excess of elegance and subtlety. If explanations involve such excesses, then the not-acceptable is called the acceptable, the not-so is called so, the incorrect is called correct, and the not-wrong is called wrong.

—Lü Buwei, The Annals of Lü BuweiKnoblock, John and Jeffrey Riegel (2001). The Annals of Lü Buwei. English. Stan...