Michael Glass wrote:Bero, regarding the carbonarius issue, I kind of have exactly the same questions in mind that Niklas raised.
I was just teasing him because of the term "doctoral dissertation" since a dissertation is by definition a
Phd/doctoral thesis. So stating doctoral dissertation is like the white polar bear.
If that be the case, I'm disappointed and have to disagree... A "dissertation" is NOT automatically a "Phd/doctoral thesis"
- "by definition", as you would have it - not in my language (idiolect) at least... A "doctoral dissertation" is (has been, had
been) an accepted ("official") technical term in many languages, including German, if I'm not mistaken... (Well, had been,
perhaps, but until quite recently - at least for us who are not so young any more... I clearly remember having written up,
submitted, and successfully defended a "doctoral dissertation" in 1997... No "Bolognese" or "American" Phd shortcut, but a
real, quite German-like, doctoral dissertation...)
I thought you had actually meant something much more relevant to the present issue... and got carried away by it... but
never mind. You've already honestly apologized for having mislead me (and maybe some others as well), but now we see.