Subject: categories: re: WHY ...CONCERNED? III

From: jim stasheff <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 10:01:48 -0500

Who is so preoccupied?
Folks I know usually use category theory without worrying about size
jim

F W Lawvere wrote:
> WHY ARE WE CONCERNED? III
>
> The second main misconception about category theory
>
> Part of the perception that category theory is "foundations" (in the
> pejorative sense of being remote from applications and development) is due
> to a preoccupation with huge size. Since such perceptions hold back the
> learning of category theory, and hence facilitate its misuse as a
> mystifying shield, they are among our concerns. We need to deal with the
> size preoccupation head on.
>

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