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From: Thomas Streicher <streicher@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: Michael Shulman <shulman@math.uchicago.edu>
Cc: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Not invariant but good
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:34:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100930113421.GA23528@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1P160j-0001l3-I7@mlist.mta.ca>

> However, in the absence of the axiom of choice, the naive definition
> of "functor" is not very well-behaved; it's better to use "anafunctors,"

Nothing against anafunctors but it is an exaggeration to say that in absence
of choice the usual notion of functor is not well-behaved. One just loses that
full and faithful and essential surjective entails equivalence. That's like
abandoning the notion of surjective map in case we can't split them all.

Thomas


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-30 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-24 15:44 subculture Eduardo J. Dubuc
2010-09-25  0:38 ` subculture Ruadhai
2010-09-25 23:10   ` RE : categories: subculture Joyal, André
2010-09-26  2:43   ` subculture David Leduc
2010-09-26  3:19   ` subculture Fred Linton
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTikJoHkO2M_3hnrQqqFq2_N2T9i6KF2DRFbHTujP@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-26  3:43     ` subculture Eduardo J. Dubuc
2010-09-25  4:01 ` Not invariant but good Joyal, André
     [not found] ` <B3C24EA955FF0C4EA14658997CD3E25E370F59BE@CAHIER.gst.uqam.ca>
2010-09-26  3:29   ` John Baez
2010-09-27  2:54     ` Peter Selinger
2010-09-27 15:55     ` RE : categories: " Joyal, André
2010-09-28  2:10       ` RE : " John Baez
2010-09-29 18:05         ` no joke Joyal, André
2010-09-30  2:53           ` John Baez
2010-09-28 10:18       ` RE : categories: Re: Not invariant but good Thomas Streicher
2010-09-29 21:25         ` Michael Shulman
2010-09-30  3:07           ` Richard Garner
2010-09-30 11:11           ` Thomas Streicher
2010-09-30 19:39             ` Michael Shulman
2010-09-30 11:34           ` Thomas Streicher [this message]
     [not found] ` <20101001092434.GA9359@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
2010-10-03 22:10   ` Michael Shulman
2010-09-27  5:36 John Baez
2010-09-28 23:11 ` Michael Shulman
2010-10-01 12:36 Thomas Streicher

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