Jerry, List
JC: Jerry Chandler
AS: Arnold Shepperson
On 4/22/06, Jerry Chandler wrote:
JC: Ipresuppose that most readers of this list will find these statements to clash with their philosophy of physics, the philosophy of genera. I can merely add that the symbol system of physics is not the
Does anybody know anything about category theory in math, which is what the
book in the forwarded message below is about. What is it? Does it actually
have any philosophical interest? Is it relevant to Peirce?
Joe Ransdell
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Joe, list,
The popular discussions of category theory on the Internet haven't helped me
very much. Apparently the basic explanational problem is that it's based on
higher math, so it's just hard to explain.
I once asked a singularity theorist, okay, it's about categories, so what are
the
See:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/
Though this may be more useful:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Category.html
I asked at a conference recently why category theory was considered so
important and the claim was made that it is important because it is our
most advanced
As far as i know, informally speaking category theory studies mappings
(i.e. morphisms) between two sets of objects belonging to the same
category. for example between two groups, rings, vector spaces,
topological spaces, etc. in some sense, it can be thought of as an
abstraction of already
