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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.logic
Subject: Re: Simple enough for every reader?
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 01:56:22 +0100
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Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> writes:

> On 2025-05-25 01:09:59 +0000, Ben Bacarisse said:
>
>> Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> writes:
>> 
>>> On 2025-05-23 13:21:21 +0000, Ben Bacarisse said:
>>> 
>>>> WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 21.05.2025 03:17, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>>>> WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> writes:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 20.05.2025 02:50, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>>>>>> WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> writes:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I am one of the few Professors worldwide who do teach the
>>>>>>>>> correct view of
>>>>>>>>> infinity (if actual infinity exists at all).
>>>>>>>> Fortunately it's an optional course (at least it was) and your college
>>>>>>> It is not a college but the Technische Hochschule Ausgsburg (THA).
>>>>>> Why is college (or maybe technical college) not a good translation of
>>>>>> that term?
>>>>>> 
>>>>> According to my dictionaries Colleges are parts of universities, but also
>>>>> institutions not offering degrees attended by secretaries or
>>>>> hairdressers. According to this translation the Technische Hochschule
>>>>> Augsburg consists of several colleges. But the faculty of general studies
>>>>> covers the full university of applied sciences. All students can attend my
>>>>> courses.
>>>> Your dictionary is very odd.  In common English usage some colleges are
>>>> parts of universities and some are not.  Some award degrees and some
>>>> don't.  Some offer PhD studies and some don't.  I don't know what
>>>> hairdressers have to so with it.
>>> The point is that as a college can be significanlty less ambitious as
>>> a superior school and in particular the Tehcnische Hochschule Augsburg
>>> the word "college" is not a good translation of "hochschule".
>> A college can be very ambitious.
>
> That does not mean that every college is.

I don't know what point you are making anymore.  For someone like me who
does not know exactly what a "hochschule" is, "college" is a good
translation as it is a general term.  It may not be specific enough for
some purposes but it can't be wrong.

-- 
Ben.