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"Oxford" did not choose the name



By your definition no name ever was "chosen" by any corporation in history. Organizations are made of people, and when a new org inside the main org is named, it obviously was named by someone (or a committee). In the end, the "organization" choose the name, potato po-ta-to.


You misunderstand. There are many cases where there is a decision making process (either single person or collective) that reasonably represents an organization's decision. But no such organization representing Oxford picked the name of FHI. It was picked by the people, most likely Bostrom, who started FHI, and did not at all represent a decision by greater Oxford.




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