From: "Steve vickers" <s.j.vickers@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Topological spaces are ? frames
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:44:49 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001401c2d1c2$fc3c3520$50c2bc93@acws0090> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302101814.KAA16416@coraki.Stanford.EDU>
> I'm looking for a better adjective than "eclectic" to use in the equation,
> "Topological spaces are ?eclectic? frames." "Lax" would be good but for
> its extant 2-cell connotations. "Relaxed", "mellow" (suggested at an FMCS
> in Calgary some years ago for tensor products not required to have a right
> adjoint in either argument), and "laid-back" come to mind. (These tension
> types were to my generation as snow types are rumored to be to Eskimos.)
The spaces closest to frames are sober, and the wayward ones are drunkard
frames. Though in practice one might euphemistically call them "relaxed" or
"mellow" out of kindness.
Steve Vickers
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2003-02-10 18:14 Vaughan Pratt
2003-02-11 11:44 ` Steve vickers [this message]
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