SUO: Re: Manifolds Of Sensuous Impressions (MOSI's)
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Out Of The Mouth Of The Horse:
| Now the discovery of ideas as general as these is chiefly
| the willingness to make a brash or speculative abstraction,
| in this case supported by the pleasure of purloining words
| from the philosophers: "Category" from Aristotle and Kant,
| "Functor" from Carnap ('Logische Syntax der Sprache'), and
| "natural transformation" from then current informal parlance.
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| 'Cat.Work.Math.', pages 29-30.
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| Saunders Mac Lane,
| 'Categories for the Working Mathematician',
| Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1971.
Really, Folks! I could not be making 'all' of this stuff up!
Jon Awbrey
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