[jejones]

It's a remnant of the old belief that if you knew something's "true name" you could control it.

[aruanan]

It's a remnant of the old belief that if you knew something's "true name" you could control it.

No, it's not; though that belief did exist, that's not the case here. You're engaging in the fallacy of the undistributed middle. That A is M and B is M doesn't mean that A is B.