From: categories <cat-dist@mta.ca>
To: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Intuitionism's (read "Philosophy's") Limits
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:41:13 -0400 (AST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.90.970304224033.12639A-100000@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 18:19:51 +1030 (CST)
From: William James <wjames@arts.adelaide.edu.au>
> William James continues to write:
>
> Might I, then, go on to say that the philosophies of constructive
> mathematics and category theory really are different?
>
> Constructive mathematics is a philosophy. Category theory is not.
> The question doesn't even type-check.
>
> Of course they're different.
Does category theory, being mathematics, have no associated philosophy?
(I grant you the original question would have been more recognisable
given better use of language: "...philosophies of constructive
mathematics and *of* category theory...")
William James
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