The basic terms of a discussion of this type are:
eponymy and paronomasia.
Eponymy. The species epithet calafia was selected in honor of the beauty queen of the mythic California island, according to the book "Las sergas de Esplandian" written ca.
(2) See for instance, Thomas Wheaton Bestor, "Common Properties and
Eponymy in Plato," Philosophical Quarterly 23 (1978): 189-207.
Nevertheless [Sacher-]Masoch's continuing fame is not as a philosemite or plagiarist, but for his personal and literary
eponymy.
(134) Trademark cases also distinguish "closely held mark" situations from inadvertent
eponymy. Courts have been somewhat reluctant to issue an injunction against a good faith junior user who happens to have the same personal name that another business uses for a trademark.
Ehyeh asher Ehyeh is not only a name, it is a sine qua non of functional
eponymy. Implicit in "I Will Be What I Will Be" is the predicate clause " ...
Thus, too, are characteristics associated with the archetypal bearer of a name (Jezebel, Walter Mitty, Sandwich, Cardigan) transferred as
eponymy to apply to a set of humans or objects, in the formation of a common word.
Though most economists are probably not familiar with the word
eponymy, the concept to which it relates is a common and well-known practice--namely, "affixing the name of the scientist to all or part of what he has found" (Merton 1973, 298).
Eponymy: The genus is named in honor of the late W.
I Semantic/semasiological + + - change (including
eponymy (8) and folk-etymological change) II Borrowing from another -(-) + + language or variety) (incl.
But as Stephen Stigler's Law of
Eponymy (1980) suggests--inventions are never named after their inventor--there is always a predecessor, and an unfair amount of attention goes to the superstars.
Finally, Truth and Progress exhibits both the dazzle and idiosyncrasy of Rorty's literary style and eristic habits--the sharp insider wit, the hyperactive thumb-nailing of other thinkers to hawk fresh images of their thought, the will to
eponymy and syncretism, the vote-with-one's-feet reaction to what Imre Lakatos called "degenerate research programs" in philosophy.
Stigler expressed it in his famous Law of
Eponymy, "No scientific discovery is named for its original discoverer."
For example, the practice of
eponymy, naming a phenomenon after its founder (e.g., pasteurization named after its discoverer, Louis Pasteur, in 1881), promotes a "great person" theory of the history of science that further obscures the social nature of scientific knowledge.
