From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7430 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Barr Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Terminology; categorical versus categorial. Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:12:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Michael Barr NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347045799 25334 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2012 19:23:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 19:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: categories@mta.ca To: peasthope@shaw.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Sep 07 21:23:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpy.mta.ca ([138.73.1.128]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TA499-0001s9-Tw for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:23:20 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:44935) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1TA47p-0001sF-Aa; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:21:57 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TA48A-0008Qe-Md for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:22:18 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7430 Archived-At: 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 -- The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy--the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. --J.K. Galbraith [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]