(and its complications) must be dealt with. A universe in which every object had a UID would not need any namespaces, which is to say that it would constitute one gigantic namespace; but human minds could never keep track of, or semantically interrelate, so many UIDs.

Name vs. identifier

The concepts of name and identifier are denotatively equal, and the terms are thus denotatively synonymous; but they are not always connotatively

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