From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6345 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vaughan Pratt Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: "schizophrenic" reference Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:40:24 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Vaughan Pratt NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288615294 31477 80.91.229.12 (1 Nov 2010 12:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:41:34 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Mon Nov 01 13:41:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.114]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCtha-0005r9-MS for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:41:31 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:36104) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PCtgx-0002om-AF; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:40:51 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PCtgt-0002ua-Ii for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:40:47 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6345 Archived-At: On 10/28/2010 7:34 PM, Tom Leinster wrote: > > I'm afraid I say this every time "schizophrenic" objects come up, but h= ere > I go again... > > Let's not use that word. I have to agree with Tom here because to deny this would offend those=20 upset by Holocaust deniers (which we all should be upset by). This=20 comes up repeatedly in the politics of global warming, where people=20 complain on that basis about the use of the term "climate denier." Sensitivity is chopping holes in the English language the way mad cow=20 disease chops holes in the brain, obliging us to replace "he" by "he or=20 she" (awkward) or "they" (ungrammatical), maintain an up-to-the-minute=20 lexicon of who's allowed to call which groups by what names, keep track=20 of which punishments are meted out to which groups for insulting which=20 icons, and so on. I'm not saying sensitivity should or shouldn't do this, I'm just=20 pointing out that it's happening. Nature does not judge BSE as good or=20 bad, however badly done by its victims might feel. This might not be the best time to advertise my paper "Communes via=20 Yoneda, from an Elementary Perspective," Fundamenta Informaticae 123=20 (2010) 1=9616, DOI 10.3233/FI-2010-315, which (at long last) is the=20 journal version of my CT'04 talk in Vancouver. That's because I speak=20 there about "the schizophrenic mind-body nature of Lewis's qualia" which=20 I explicate in terms of the dual nature of the elements of the dualizing=20 object and the states (functionals, open sets, dual points, intensive=20 quantities) of the tensor unit as the dual of the dualizing object in=20 *-autonomous categories, and the generalization thereof via profunctors=20 to commune categories. The "schizophrenia" is analyzed in terms of the=20 two kinds of entities belonging to the same homsets. All rubbish of=20 course, but hopefully to emerge from that status at some point. Vaughan [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]