Philosophy of the name. Thing and name. Losev A.F.

“What is in my name”, “The rose smells of a rose, even if you don’t have a rose, at least”, the problem of the relationship between a thing or a living being and their names (names) excited humanity for millennia. Does it exist? And if so, what is the?

in the classical work “Philosophy of the name”, first published in 1927, the great Russian philosopher turns to the community and confrontation of the specificity, specifics and ideas - that is, meaning and essence. As if the yin and yang began, the fact and the symbol combine the expression - expression. And if the phoneme of the name belongs to the category of materiality, then its internal content is a meaning, converted, according to the philosopher, in the “other”.