From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5479 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fred E.J. Linton" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: re: the definition of "evil" Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:16:36 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Fred E.J. Linton" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262743224 31285 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 02:00:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 02:00:24 +0000 (UTC) To: "categories" Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Wed Jan 06 03:00:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSLBx-0007UH-I9 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:00:09 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NSKjG-0007Ss-72 for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:30:30 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5479 Archived-At: After Mike Shulman's remarks beginning with > It looks to me like there are (at least) two different ideas of "evil" > floating around. I'm tempted to ask: which idea(s) of "evil" does = the notion of a category's being *skeletal* embody? And is that *really* "evil" in the everyman's sense of the word? Cheers, -- Fred [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]