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From: "Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>
To: "Prof. Peter Johnstone" <P.T.Johnstone@dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re:  "schizophrenic" reference
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:08:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PBdkF-0006Tk-Hg@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:14:24 AM EDT Prof. Peter Johnstone
<P.T.Johnstone@dpmms.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> ... I don't claim credit (if that's the right word) for
> introducing this use of "schizophrenic". I got it from ...

I wasn't aiming for an attribution of credit -- only for
a citation of use of the term in the accessible literature.

Certainly I have, over the years, heard at least Isbell and
Lawvere -- and others -- refer to schizophrenic objects,
schizoid objects, objects with "split" -- or "multiple", or 
"more than one" -- personality, and the like.

How far back, "over the years"? -- Probably at least to the
early 'seventies, quite possibly earlier.

Cheers, -- Fred



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             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-28 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-28 18:08 Fred E.J. Linton [this message]
2010-10-29  2:34 ` Tom Leinster
     [not found]   ` <C4329BBD-876C-43D0-AB53-DB2E92603E7F@kestrel.edu>
2010-10-31  8:21     ` Dusko Pavlovic
2010-10-31 10:40   ` Vaughan Pratt
     [not found] <20101101135231.CF3035C25C@chase.mathstat.dal.ca>
2010-11-01 20:37 ` Dusko Pavlovic
2010-11-03  2:56   ` Tom Leinster
2010-11-03 16:24     ` edubuc
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-27 10:21 Fred E.J. Linton
2010-10-28  9:13 ` Prof. Peter Johnstone

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