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Subject: Re: Terminology question wrt fibrations of categories.
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Ronald Brown wrote:
> on the other hand Paul Taylor, following Peter Johnstone, I understand, uses
> \phi is prone, supine, instead of cartesian, cocartesian
>
`Prone' and `supine' were invented by Paul Taylor; I copied them from him,
not the other way round. I'm sorry Ronnie doesn't like them; they seem to
me a very neat way of finding two words that both mean `lying
horizontally' but have an opposite handedness about them.
Peter Johnstone