From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7798 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johannes Huebschmann Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Origin of the term "functor" Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:40:18 +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 1373835295 31733 80.91.229.3 (14 Jul 2013 20:54:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:54:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Steve Stevenson , Categories List To: Peter May Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun Jul 14 22:54:55 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 1UyTJn-0001BH-F6 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 22:54:55 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:47651) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UyTI3-00024x-TZ; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:53:07 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyTI4-0001Wc-4Y for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:53:08 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7798 Archived-At: 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. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]