<div dir="ltr">I dunno- the rise of a standard chemical terminology by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) streamlined communication within that field, which prior to this was plagued by large numbers of terms by different workers for the same phenomena. Similar, I think, to the unifying effect of the adoption of the Metric System after the French Revolution.<div><br></div><div>Jess Tauber</div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 10:30 AM Anna Alexandrova <<a href="mailto:anna.alexandrova@uniroma1.it">anna.alexandrova@uniroma1.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I feel like we tend to overstate the role of the one-to-one correspondence in the terminology used by sciences. Just a random example: in mathematics, the falling factorial is also called lower factorial, descending factorial, and falling sequential product. Some mathematicians don't even know that it is called this way. It is not really important. I'm not sure that it is the totally unified terminology that makes a research domain more scientific.</div></div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img alt="" style="width: 0px; max-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div>
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