Subject: query

From: categories <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 21:03:38 -0400 (AST)

Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 15:19:56 -0500 (EST)
From: James Stasheff <[email-masked]>

is there a name for a gadget with stict unit
strict inverses but multiplcation not always defined
and associativity holds when both a(bc) and (ab)c
are defined
BUT neither bracketing existing implies the other exists
references?
thanks

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