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tshaddox
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I don't think it's nominative determinism when the entity's name is determined by an attribute of the entity.
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notepad0x90
4 days ago
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that's not what I meant, I meant how their actions and involvement keeps drawing them back to the origin of their name, thus their name having a deterministic effect on their fate.
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