From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6209 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Leduc Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Freyd Categories Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:01:54 +0000 Message-ID: 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 1285340169 10645 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2010 14:56:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:56:09 +0000 (UTC) To: categories Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Sep 24 16:56:05 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 1Oz9gx-0002jn-Vp for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:56:04 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:51419) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz9gC-00082B-Ki; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:55:16 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz9g8-0003nH-U0 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:55:13 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6209 Archived-At: Hi, A Freyd category is essentially a functor. So why is it called a category?! More generally, is there a way to see a functor as being a category? [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]