A name is important. A name is the first thing delivered to you. Almost all the explanations in the world start from showing a name. If the name is not familiar, it's difficult to understand.

I was in trouble by the name of a technique when I read a paper. There is a technique called "Image scanning microscopy". From this name, I imagined that this was a technique in which an image was scanned. However, the actual meaning is that laser scanning microscopy with detecting images. I struggled with this misunderstanding and took time to understand this technique.

A name of a person also is not used for naming of a scientific word, recently. Previously, the name of a person who invented or discovered was used for the scientific naming. Although it is easy to know the name who did, not easy to understand the meaning of the word. Therefore, we now seldom use any names of parson for the naming of a scientific word.

2019.03

A good sense of naming.