From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7069 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fred E.J. Linton" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Dualities arising via pairs of schizophrenic objects Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:39:52 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Fred E.J. Linton" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322403891 22484 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2011 14:24:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:24:51 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun Nov 27 15:24:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.4]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RUfex-0003hV-1Y for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:24:47 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:52948) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RUfdW-0005bw-JN; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:23:18 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RUfdV-00026E-0a for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:23:17 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7069 Archived-At: I must say, the ideas of taking the name of the god Janus in vain (suggested on the nLab page cited below), or using anything that = rhymes with Bambimorphic, strike me as Bad Ideas :-) . = But feel free, if you must ... . Cheers, -- Fred ------ Original Message ------ On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:28:16 AM EST, Tom Leinster wrote: > There are some people, including me, who are troubled by the term > "schizophrenic" and want to replace it. ... > There was some discussion a while ago about what would be the best > alternative. I think the best candidate is "dualizing object". See fo= r > instance the nLab page, > = > http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/dualizing+object = ... [snip] ... [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]