Abstract: A set of requirements have been raised for terminology standardization, such as monosemy, conciseness, motivation, systematicness and so on. The author wonders whether or not these requirements are rational and simultaneously correspond to reality, and why such a lot of violation standardization things exist and often happen, when the far-reaching meaning is so emphasized. There should be any profound reason. This paper attempts to answer these questions, using the examples from Russia on the basis of dialectical method. It would be helpful to establish a dialectical point of view in terminology standardization.

Key words: terminology, standardization, dialectics