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From: Gaucher Philippe <gaucher@pps.jussieu.fr>
To: Eduardo Dubuc <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>
Cc: Categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: size_question
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:01:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Qbuja-0002e4-Lv@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Qbemr-0007r1-Up@mlist.mta.ca>

Le mardi 28 juin 2011 19:39:10, vous avez écrit :
> This is a naive question on non naive foundations.
> 
> Consider the inclusion S_f C S  of finite sets in sets.
> 
> Is the category S_f closed under finite limits and at the same time small  ?
> 
> For example, there are a proper class of singletons, all finite. Thus a
> proper class of empty limits.

This is the definition of quasi-small, not small: a set of isomorphism classes 
? The category of finite sets is quasi-small, not small. And we need the axiom 
of choice for that, as for many things in category theory. 

pg.



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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-29  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-28 17:39 size_question Eduardo Dubuc
2011-06-29  2:43 ` size_question James Lipton
2011-07-02 12:24   ` size_question Andrej Bauer
2011-07-02 20:05     ` size_question Thomas Streicher
2011-07-03 15:01       ` size_question F. William Lawvere
2011-06-29  7:01 ` Gaucher Philippe [this message]

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