From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7431 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Graham White Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Terminology; categorical versus categorial. Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:39:11 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Graham White NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347045978 26777 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2012 19:26:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 19:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: categories@mta.ca To: peasthope@shaw.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Sep 07 21:26:19 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 1TA4Bu-0004t5-JI for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:26:10 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:44946) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1TA4Ay-00024o-FI; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:25:12 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TA4BJ-0008Se-LC for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:25:33 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7431 Archived-At: One factor might be that the philosophical tradition also has the terminology "category", but means rather different things by it, and they tend to use "categorial" (I think, but I haven't really checked). In particular, both Kant and Husserl use categorial a lot. So (since we started using the word category later than the philosophers did) saying "categorical" is a way of avoiding confusion. (Philosophers do use the pair hypothetical/categorical as a way of talking about preconditions for assertions, but that's so different from what we do that it's unlikely to cause confusion). All of this is off the top of my head, and could do with checking. Graham On 06/09/12 19:39, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote: > Apologies in case this story is in the archive. I failed to find it. > > According to online dictionaries, categorical and categorial can be > synonyms. Almost everyone seems to prefer categorical whereas > categorial comes from the simple rule of replacing the last vowel of > the noun with "ial". > > So, is the preference for categorical just an inheritance from early > authors? Is there a stronger reason to use it? Is the explanation > in the archive? > > Thanks, ... Peter E. > > > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]