From: Graham White <graham@dcs.qmul.ac.uk>
To: Categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Fuzzy categories
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:54:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138121643.9030.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43D4E02A.5010606@cs.stmarys.ca>
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 09:54 -0400, Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote:
> Steve Stevenson wrote:
> > This seems like a natural idea. But the American Math Soc web site
> > has no listings. What is a fundamental reference?
>
> Kelly's "Basic Concepts of Enriched Category Theory"
>
> http://www.tac.mta.ca/tac/reprints/articles/10/tr10.pdf
>
> Of course, the term "fuzzy categories" is never actually used there.
> (You can put the stockwhip down now, Max!) Moreover, it is not clear to
> me that "fuzzification" in its usual cottage-industry sense would be
> seen by many categorists as the right level of generality. But if you
> wanted to do it for some reason, that's probably where to start.
>
> -Robert Dawson
There has been quite a lot of work on fuzzy sets and topos
theory: a Google search for "fuzzy sets topos", or
"fuzzy logic topos", will turn up quite a lot of it.
I find it a bit surprising that there is so much
work, given the sociological characteristics of the
communities involved. But it's there anyway.
Graham White
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2006-01-23 13:54 Robert J. MacG. Dawson
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