Subject: categories: Re: co-

From: Robert Dawson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:50:34 -0300

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> From: Paul Taylor <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: categories: co-
> Date: Friday, July 03, 1998 8:39 AM
> 
> What are the origins of the   co-   prefix, as in coproduct, coequaliser
..,
> and who established their use?
> 
> Has anybody ever thought through and written down any guidelines on
> which of a pair of dual concepts is co-?
> 
> Who is reponsible for dropping this prefix from cofinal?

	Njectural answer: anybody who doesn't want the ncept to be nfused
with "cofinal" in the topological sense, which is surely an older usage.
(Is this rrect?)

		Robert Dawson