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From: <wlawvere@buffalo.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: A small cartesian closed concrete category
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:30:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JWKrd-00034P-GP@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)


Peter Easthope  points out that in
 Lawvere & Schanuel there is no
mention of Arend Heyting. That is
unfortunate, especially since 
pp 348-352 are devoted to
introducing Heyting's Algebras 
and one of their possible
objective origins. The 2nd edition
should correct this omission.

Summarizing the 16 responses,
a common thought of many must 
have been 
"If small implies finite
then any example must be a poset
(category in which any two parallel
maps are equal) because of Freyd's
 theorem.  A CC poset is almost 
by definition a Heying Algebra.
There are linearly ordered ones of 
any size, but if the size is four or more,
there are also examples that are not 
linearly ordered....
 
On the other hand if infinite examples 
are allowed, and posetal ones are not,
it is hard to think of a  CCC smaller than
a skeletal category of all finite sets."

Bill




             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-03 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-03 21:30 wlawvere [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-25 15:50 Fred E.J. Linton
2008-05-22 16:27 PETER EASTHOPE
2008-05-16 20:57 Toby Bartels
2008-03-03 14:37 peasthope
2008-02-16 12:21 Thorsten Altenkirch
2008-02-16  1:51 Colin McLarty
2008-02-16  0:17 Andrej Bauer
2008-02-15 19:08 Matt Hellige
2008-02-15  8:18 Paul Taylor
2008-02-15  3:46 Fred E.J. Linton
2008-02-14 20:06 PETER EASTHOPE

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