Re: Terminology; categorical versus categorial.

[Robert Seely <rags@math.mcgill.ca>]

AFAIK, the only (main?) use of "categorial" is in the context of
categorial grammar (a monoidal-category approach to linguistics,
roughly) - and it'd probably cause confusion now if it moved into
other applications of category theory.

-= rags =-

On Thu, 6 Sep 2012, 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.
>
>
>
>

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