From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7793 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter May Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Origin of the term "functor" Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 07:21:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Peter May 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 1373525879 11480 80.91.229.3 (11 Jul 2013 06:57:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 06:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Categories List To: Steve Stevenson Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Thu Jul 11 08:58:00 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 1UxApA-0000B8-Ty for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:57:57 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:46013) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UxAnD-0007UK-9X; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:55:55 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxAnF-00074j-0L for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:55:57 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7793 Archived-At: Saunders MacLane used to tell me that it was inspired by Kant. On 7/7/13 1:34 PM, Steve Stevenson wrote: > 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/ ]