Podsumowanie obrad sekcji "Diagnostyka" VIII KKEUT

The paper presents brief presentations of twelve papers in the aspect of formulating a diagnosis of a technical object's state. Some problems concerning formulation of the diagnosis are also presented. The attention is paid to the need of their reliability as well as the necessity of correct interpretation of terms for expression of scientific views. Moreover, the meanings of the most important terms, which are understood in different ways by the papers' authors, are also presented in the paper.