Sunday June

What is in a name?

1.'What do you mean there isn't a name for it?'

2.'Well there's no one word for all its parts.'

1.'I am still not clear?'

2.'There's no one word for what this is.'

1.'Does there have to be?'

2.'Well it helps us to know what it is.'

1.'What's the name for trying to describe and not? For trying to mould many meanings and not. For trying to explain and not. Without a name for this doomed desire we know what it is. Without a name - it is what it is.'

2.'We do.'

1.'What do you mean, 'we do'?'

2.'We have a name for the experience you just described'

1.'What?'

2.'Inarticulate'

1.'No that doesn't cover it. That word suggests one is generally lacking in vocab which isn't true. One is just struggling with a particular collection of parts at this moment in time.'

2.'It would help if we had a name for this'

1.'I am not sure it would'

2.'It's true it wouldn't make it any clearer but it would be nice.'

1.'Would it mean we understand it any better? Would it help take it away? Would a name make it easy? Look at green for example - green doesn't make green easy. There's pale green, racing green, grass green, emerald green, turquoise, which is a sort of green or is it blue? And think of all the colours that make green green.'

2.'Green is green'

1.'No it is not.

It is true green is a colour BUT it is not a primary colour it is an additive primary colour.

It is a mixture of yellow and blue, or to be more exact yellow and cyan. On the HSV colour wheel, which if you didn't know is also known as the RGB colour wheel, the complement of green is magenta. And magenta well that's certainly not green it is a purple colour, what ever purple is, corresponding to an equal mixture of red and blue. On the RYB colour wheel the complementary colour to green is considered to be red. So green is certainly not just green, however helpful you think that name is, it's not'

2'Just like black and white are never black and white but grey.'

1'Exactly.'

2.'OK your right it is what it is and that's an end to it.'

1.'Or to be more accurate it's just the beginning of it.'

2.'Why?'

1.'Well it keeps changing'

2.'So everytime we get closer to a name what we're naming changes?'

1.'Yes.'

2.'Well that makes it a little more difficult.'

1.'As though it weren't already.'