A rose by any other name: would it smell as sweet?

Systemic sclerosis classification: a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?

Managing Data Items – A Grass Roots Look at the MRI

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;..“ William Shakespeare (1564 — 1616), "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2. Whilst the management of Data Items (Publications, Drawings and Software) doesn't always “smell sweet”, and (unlike Romeo with Juliet) is seldom thought of as going “hand-in-hand” with learning outcomes; it is never the less an essential e...

Roses by other names: taxonomy of the Rhizobiaceae.

When Shakespeare wrote (46), “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet,” he implied that phenotypes (scent in this case) take precedence over nomenclature. In popular usage, they usually do. Cartoonists classify politicians by their ears or noses. Scientists use physical characteristics to delimit everything from species (e.g., cranium size in the gen...

The effectors of innate immunity: DAMPs, DAMEs, or DIMEs?

‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ is one of the most famous lines in all of literature. The implication of this observation, spoken by Juliet about the troubles in Verona because Romeo was called Montague and Juliet Capulet, is that names do not matter; rather, it is the thing itself that is important. Of course, Shakespeare’s great line works because everyone knows what a rose is...

How Models of Creativity and Analogy Need to Answer the Tailorability Concern

Creativity and the ability to reason analogically have a strong relationship [18, 19, 29, 23]. For example, many of the greatest lines in literature make use of familiar analogical processes: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” only makes sense if that rose and its name are understood to correspond to Romeo and his family name (analogical mapping). The subsequent analogical inferenc...