See also: terminology, plurality
Definition overloading
I think my worry with a âstandard libraryâ is that there is no one âunifiedâ interpretation of a single concept, how will it adapt to usage overtime? Wouldnât this anchor thought patterns to a shared âtruthâ and prevent evolution of language?
âBy changing what we were, you change what we are and what we are going to be.â
Erasure through terminology change, is this essentially just cooptation?
âThus potential sources of uncertainty and misunderstanding arise in the form of homonyms (i.e. words that are used to denote more than one concept) and synonyms (i.e. more than one word for the same concept).â Source