From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5940 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Toby Bartels Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: The humility topos Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:06:47 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: Toby Bartels NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277907465 23126 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2010 14:17:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:17:45 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories list Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Wed Jun 30 16:17:43 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OTy6g-00021s-3c for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:17:42 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1OTxXm-0007JZ-4K for categories-list@mta.ca; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:41:38 -0300 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5940 Archived-At: Michael Barr wrote in part: >Aside from wanting to know what was meant here, should the first quote >have put humility topos in quotes, for example, I would also like to know >what is the subobject classifier of the humility topos. As for what is meant, these links seem to be relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventio#Topoi http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_h.html#humility_topos_anchor I don't think that "humility topos" should be in quotation marks, although it looks like "topos" is supposed to be italicised (as a foreign word, always with the foregin plural "topoi"). If anybody knows an eager literary theorist, see if you can get a response to the question "What classifies parts in the humility topos?" (using the term "part" instead of "subobject" to make it more accessible). The best answer that I could get from the Internet is the 1601 Elizabethan Poor Law. But I fear that this is in too restricted a context (the subobject classifier of some slice of the humility topos). http://books.google.com/books?id=f9_a4d0j9DQC&pg=PA262&dq=classify+part+"humility+topos"%3F&ots=entEEqom3l --Toby [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]