From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6142 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Leduc Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Evil in bicategories Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:22:26 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: David Leduc NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284320728 3502 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2010 19:45:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: categories , droberts@maths.adelaide.edu.au To: Toby Bartels Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun Sep 12 21:45:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpy.mta.ca ([138.73.1.139]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OusUP-0003y4-Qt for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:45:26 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:55371) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OusTC-0005LT-Jn; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:44:10 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OusT9-0001t5-V1 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:44:08 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20100912073136.GA9115@ugcs.caltech.edu> Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6142 Archived-At: > You can see examples at http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/bicategory Ah, it's only for bicategories. I was expecting a definition in dependent type theory of omega-categories. That would have helped me understanding it. > The answer is the same: when stating the associativity law, > you begin with objects W,X,Y,Z and go on from there. Yes, it makes sense. Thank you. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]