From: Johannes Huebschmann <huebschm@math.univ-lille1.fr>
To: Peter May <may@math.uchicago.edu>
Cc: Steve Stevenson <steve@clemson.edu>, Categories List <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Origin of the term "functor"
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:40:18 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1UyTI4-0001Wc-4Y@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1UxAnF-00074j-0L@mlist.mta.ca>
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Peter May wrote:
> Saunders MacLane used to tell me that it was inspired by Kant.
Yes, for sure, "category" was inspired by Aristotle and Kant.
But functor?
Best regards
Johannes
>
> 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.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-07 18:34 Steve Stevenson
2013-07-09 12:21 ` Peter May
2013-07-11 7:40 ` Johannes Huebschmann [this message]
2013-07-09 12:43 ` Johannes Huebschmann
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