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> Bologna .... It invented the term "University" (from universitas magistrorum et scholarium).

So, if something meets the requirements before a word was coined to describe a set of those requirements cannot be retroactively called that?

So, for example Mathematics before the word Mathematics was coined is just mumbo jumbo. Got it!



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