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If it's doing what a NAND gate does, it's a NAND gate. Reality does not come pre-labelled,but things also do not spring into existence just because someone has labelled them.
Only if you think that "X is Y" means something other than, "My brain has associated the label Y with the cluster of sensory experiences denoted by X".
I do: I think it means "X is a mind-independent object that would and should be labelled Y by an onlooker speaking my language". I believe there are stars and planets no one has ever seen, or had a chance to label as such, Don't you?
I think you've missed the part where that is still a label in your mind, being attached to a cluster of sensory experiences.
In such cases, the sensory experience clusters you're labeling are memories associated with the labels "star" and "planet".
However, this has little to do with an X-is-Y identity. In order to say "X is Y", there has to be an X and a Y, and you are speaking only here of the hypothesized existence of various X's that you would then label Y.
In any event, this and this are relevant here, in case you've missed them.