From: Graham White <graham@eecs.qmul.ac.uk>
To: "Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>
Cc: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Dualities arising via pairs of schizophrenic objects
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:25:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RV16m-0006sI-8F@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RUfdV-00026E-0a@mlist.mta.ca>
Two possible names are "liminal" (from limen, a doorway), or
"bifrontal" (from frons, which means face: one of the titles of Janus
is Janus bifrons). I kind of like liminal, because it emphasises the
function of the twofacedness, rather than simply the fact that the
object is twofaced.
Graham
On 26/11/11 07:39, Fred E.J. Linton wrote:
> 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
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-27 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-26 7:39 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-11-27 15:25 ` Graham White [this message]
2011-11-28 17:04 ` Jocelyn Ireson-Paine
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2011-12-07 13:39 Valeria de Paiva
2011-12-02 15:59 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-12-04 14:25 ` Jean Benabou
2011-11-28 6:18 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-11-28 14:00 ` Robert Dawson
2011-11-26 15:06 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-11-27 15:43 ` Todd Trimble
2011-11-24 16:06 Sebastian Kerkhoff
2011-11-24 20:33 ` Tom Leinster
2011-11-25 14:38 ` Robert Dawson
2011-11-26 16:07 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2011-11-25 4:10 ` Ross Street
2011-11-26 16:45 ` tholen
2011-11-28 20:12 ` Vaughan Pratt
2011-11-29 23:37 ` David Roberts
2011-12-07 5:48 ` Dusko Pavlovic
2011-12-07 13:58 ` Michael Barr
2011-12-07 17:58 ` Jocelyn Ireson-Paine
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