Re: [FWP] another word for object?

[Philip Newton <philip.newton@datenrevision.de>]

B. K. Oxley (binkley) at Home wrote:
> Uri Guttman wrote:
> > 
> > your mission is to come up with a nice short term to use instead of
> > object. i am sick of the word and i need to name these 
> > things and have %name_to_object maps and such. i can't just
> > call it 'name' either.
> 
> Ding is always nice.  (German for 'thing'.)  It also has nice
> connotations from the phrase "das Ding-am-ding" ('thing in 
> itself') from philosophy[*].
> 
> * == I'm recalling this phrase from my undergraduate days, and it's
> recollection is subject to all the usual penalties.  In fact, 
> this isn't the translation I'd think of at all if encountering the
> phrase for the first time.  Hmmm...

That's because the phrase is really "das Ding-an-sich" (or, in German, "das
Ding an sich").

"Das Ding-am-Ding" would mean "the thing on the thing".

Cheers,
Philip

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