Standard string searches that can be used instead require a priori knowledge of all possible terminologies.
Theories employing possible worlds terminology have been found to be very useful in philosophy, e.g. when engaging in thought experiments; distinguishing various claims in metaphysics, or in the philosophy of language, mind, knowledge or ethics; and in areas other than philosophy, like linguistics, modal logic, and probability theory.
However, it is important to note that the relationship between the terminological change and public perception may not be simple and unidirectional, and it is possible that terminology and public opinion influence each other.
This makes detailed insight possible using terminology others can understand well.
Although a comprehensive search strategy was undertaken, given the complexity of possible sources, terminology and brevity of descriptions of interventions, some literature may have been missed.
Where possible, the terminology for the different prefrontal areas used by Ghashgaei et al. (2007) is converted to that of Carmichael and Price (1994).
(It may be noted in passing that in Arabic, nafs means both "soul" and "self"; though Avicenna took care to be as precise as possible in his terminology, this double-entendre has an inevitable presence in Arabic psychological literature, especially in the wake of Avicenna).
It is possible that the terminology debate was more important for MDs who may have to battle ideological concerns in daily patient care more often than PhDs.
Because classification systems and nomenclature for preinvasive cervical neoplasia are not standardized in the United States, a master list of possible diagnostic codes, terminology, and synonymic search terms was developed and provided to all reporting laboratories to standardize case finding.
We decided to use the second approach for these reasons: i) We want to collect and create the most extensive terminology possible, not wasting the resources we already have (dictionaries for instance) and, ii) it facilitates the extraction of the most important concepts to enrich the Spanish version.
