An important thing for name sis that you want them to be immutable because it's hard to refactor both all the writing using that name, and everyone's memory to

An important thing for name sis that you want them to be immutable because it's hard to refactor both all the writing using that name, and everyone's memory to change the concept of a spheroid from one definition to another. This makes it hard to choose generic names from the get-go since the first person to use name might not attach it to the best concept for it, making it unavailable for the best concept for the name to describe. ----- I've always imagined people's names in concept names to be a shorthand for the papers that defined them. Eg. "Calabi-yau manifold" is just another way to write "manifolds as described by calabi and Yau in <well known paper>" and importing all the detailed definitions from that paper. To get the same from properties from a generic name, you need to get a canonical definition that everyone agrees with