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The very fact that RMS has 15 honorary doctorates undermines his argument: if they were at all equivalent, there would be individuals with a comparable number o
by sanj 5y ago
The very fact that RMS has 15 honorary doctorates undermines his argument: if they were at all equivalent, there would be individuals with a comparable number of earned doctorates.
But the latter don’t get offered for the same body of work, over and over again.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoAnother way to consider the meaning of a degree is: "School X asserts that person Y knows their stuff on topic Z" normally a school only ever says that about someone because they themselves produced and gauged that persons education. And for the same reason, normally a person only ever gets one school to say that about them. But that could be seen as more a matter of logistics than some concept of "earning". Some school that doesn't know me can't make any declarations about my fitness to work in a given field. The earning thing is not exactly a wrong way to think about it, but it's not exactly the only or the whole way either.