Comment from Jack Ring:

Thank you for seeking to clarify this situation. Pls consider this example and tell us how to express our need in better terms. When talking about a system one person may refer to ‘endogenous' and ‘exogenous' attributes while another person may refer to ‘Class’ and ‘Type' and yet a third may use ‘property' and ‘characteristic,' essentially three sets of synonyms. However the three persons do not necessarily realize these are synonyms so talk past one another. So we are asking ontologists to show us how to handle synonyms so that the ontology can serve diverse members of a system engineering project. This is not simple. Besides synonyms there are perhaps 38 other kinds of ‘-nyms’ in the world’s languages. Make sense? The similar situation exists regarding isomorphs of system models. Help! Template:Wl-comment: