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eponym

Place name, name of a people, or any other name derived from the name of a real or mythical person, for example Athens (from the goddess Athena); also the person who gives his or her name in this way.



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The loss of eponymy and place markers can, of course, be read as a story of the advance of science--the replacement of the local and specific with the general; the thing with the kind; the mutable immobile with the immutable mobile; and the concrete instance with the formal abstraction.
The Kindness of Strangers: Kinds and Politics in Classification ... by BOWKER, GEOFFREY C. / Library Trends
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