ABSTRACT
What does matter, however, is that once you have chosen a name for a concept, you should always use that name for that concept. This may seem obvious, but it is all too easy to forget. One source of danger is the assumption that senses can always be named after their lexemes (with capital letters changed to small and inverted commas added). This can’t possibly be true where two lexemes share the same sense, as with BICYCLE and CYCLE and other pairs of synonyms. Even if the sense is named after one lexeme, it can’t also be named after the other; so if you blindly base sense-names on lexeme-names, you deny that synonymy is possible.
