ONOMANTICS AND TERMINOLOGY .2. CORE CONCEPTS

In both Onomantics and Terminology there are about a half-dozen core c oncept which overlap but do not coincide with each other. They include what is called representation, description, cue, tag and notation in Onomantics and, in Terminology, definition, designation, term, symbol and name. A lexicographer writing a synonymy for such words might comp are their meanings to show how they resemble or differ from each other , using a Semantic (words-to-meanings) point of view. To compare conce pts (not words) in an Onomantic (Ana-Semantic, or concept-to-tag) cont ext, one needs to compare the descriptions (definitions) of each conce pt to sec whether they, indeed, have the same or different essential c haracteristics. One also needs to compare the notations that situate e ach concept in a system - even if the definitions of two concepts are almost the same, one might discover that because two concepts are posi tioned differently in their respective classification schemes, they ar e conceptualized differently. Finally, the concept tags (terms) used t o represent each concept can also be compared semantically, i.e. to se e whether their connotations and additional meanings support or hamper the unambiguous recognition of each intended concept. After an introd uctory display of the two sets of concepts, each of those used in Term inology is compared systematically, using all three sets of comparison s, with the nearest equivalent concepts used in Onomantics.