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When, for instance, a science is young, the same concept is often explained using many different terms. Over time canonical naming conventions emerge which standardize the settled parts of the field, leaving less settled future frontiers to be discussed productively with the aid of shorthand.

All named theorems do this in math, continually compressing the lexical space as a way of enabling further out ideas to be even expressed. Granted, math may be the except that proves the rule, but it is an important one.