From: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>
To: peasthope@shaw.ca
Cc: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Terminology; categorical versus categorial.
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:12:44 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1TA48A-0008Qe-Md@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1T9zy7-0007VB-Fg@mlist.mta.ca>
Someone (Lambek?) used a title of the sort "On categorical and categorial
grammars". Categorial grammars are based on grammatical categories such
as noun, verb, etc. That doesn't explain why categorists have always used
"categorical", but it is a minor reason not to change. Of course, the
major reason is that there is no reason to change.
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-07 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-06 18:39 peasthope
2012-09-07 15:12 ` Michael Barr [this message]
2012-09-07 15:39 ` Graham White
2012-09-07 21:48 ` Charles Wells
2012-09-07 16:18 ` Robert Seely
2012-09-07 17:58 ` Robert Dawson
2012-09-07 19:57 ` Peter Selinger
2012-09-07 17:35 Fred E.J. Linton
2012-09-07 23:37 ` Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
2012-09-08 2:08 Fred E.J. Linton
2012-09-08 6:17 Fred E.J. Linton
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