Re: Dualities arising via pairs of schizophrenic objects

[Jocelyn Ireson-Paine <popx@j-paine.org>]

From the original description of this kind of object, I get the image of
two networks (the two categories) which have only one vertex in common. Or
to get more physical about it - which is a good way to generate mental
images of real-world analogues whose names we can steal - two fishing nets
or string bags tied together at a single knot. So what's a good name for
that knot? A "junction"? A "contingence"? A "taction"? It's where two
worlds touch, like a weak spot in the space-time continuum where the
threads have worn away, or the Wood Between the Worlds in the Narnia
novels. How about "crossover object"?

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On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Graham White wrote:

> 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

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