From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7792 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Stevenson Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Origin of the term "functor" Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 14:34:38 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: Steve Stevenson NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373367499 16837 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2013 10:58:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 10:58:19 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories List Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Tue Jul 09 12:58:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.186]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UwVch-0001AO-3Y for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:58:19 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:45069) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UwVbJ-0005wk-OW; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 07:56:53 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwVbI-0006JE-Hk for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 07:56:52 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7792 Archived-At: Wikipedia says that the word "functor" is borrowed from work by Carnap on linguistics. Is anyone aware of other roots of category theory that come from linguistics/semiotics? -- D. E. (Steve) Stevenson, PhD, Emeritus Associate Professor, Clemson University "Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach," Aristotle. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]