To highlight this, use Adam – the first one who gives the name. The role of Adam was passed on to all humanity; we are called to connect our world to the Divine, to connect “the Ideas in God and the things in the world” (Caldecott 41). Caldecott uses this comparison between our mission and Adam's mission to great effect, underscoring his thesis that naming (and therefore grammar) is central to who we are. Names, he argues, are so precious, so important, that we cannot even name ourselves. As counterintuitive as it may seem at first glance, one quickly realizes that naming is equivalent to knowing; we can never truly know ourselves. It can therefore be deduced that grammar is simply an expansion of this knowledge; grammar allows us to connect nouns in such a way that we can understand and know them better