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Hugo Schuchardt's frequently quoted statement of more than half a century ago, "Terminologische Unklarheit ist fiir die Wissenschaft was Nebel fiir die Schiffahrt," appears to characterize a perennially recurring difficulty not only in human communication and philosophical argument but also in linguistic science." At the beginning of the postwar period of modern linguistics, Carl Hjalmar Borgstrom renewed the discussion on the semantics of the terminology employed in language analysis,2 and a number of further articles devoted to the problem of technical terms and their meanings have been published since.3 Franz Dorner has rightly observed that terminology deals with linguistic facts in a manner which is not to be conceived of as a part of common linguistic usage yet which influences considerably the activity of actual research, and concludes: "Von sprachwissenschaftlicher Seite her gesehen, kbnnten wir also sagen, daB3 die Terminologie ein Teilgebiet der angewandten Sprachwissenschaft ist."'