From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7794 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johannes Huebschmann Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Origin of the term "functor" Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:43:02 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Johannes Huebschmann NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373525918 11892 80.91.229.3 (11 Jul 2013 06:58:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 06:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Categories List To: Steve Stevenson Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Thu Jul 11 08:58:40 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 1UxApr-0000wJ-Q3 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:58:39 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:46020) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UxAoK-0007XM-Te; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:57:04 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxAoM-00075r-U3 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:57:06 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7794 Archived-At: In Categories for the working mathematician Mac Lane himself explains the origin of the terminology (end of first chapter): "Functor" is taken from R. Carnap, Logische Syntax der Sprache (1934). I am not sure whether linguistics/semiotics in our sense correctly refers to Carnap (Frege, Carnap, Goedel, Popper, Quine, Tarski, ...). Best regards Johannes On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, 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/ ]