An old Chinese proverb => its source?

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Adolf Ceska wrote:
>
>  Linnaeus said something similar:
>
> Nomina si nescis, perit et cognition rerum.
> ["Who knoweth not the names, knoweth not the subject."]
> If you don't know the names, your knowledge of the things perishes.
> Linnaeus, Critica Botanica No. 210, 1737
>

* of course, he wasn't exactly a disinterested observer when it came to
the importance of nomenclature.

fred.
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