When the automotive industry was faced with the unavoidable arrival of the electric car, the biggest players in the game scrambled to find the best names for the new vehicle families they were about ...

A top Volkswagen executive has said the German car manufacturer will drop its current clunky combination of letters and numbers for future electric cars in favour of more conventional names instead.

The philosophy of language has long engaged with questions concerning the nature, use, and interpretation of proper names. Central to this field are debates between referentialist and predicativist ...

A sample of parrots living with humans showed the ability to correlate names with individuals, but also to use proper names in ways humans typically don't. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...