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Re: Why so many overlapping terminologies

Subject: Re: Why so many overlapping terminologies
From: William Elliot
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:53:43 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.logic
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Terry Padden wrote:
> "patro" <patro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > "Terry Padden" <TPadden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Superficially it seems that we have at least 5 distinct terminologies
> >> covering the same fundamental concepts.
> >
> > Yes. They are products and coproducts in suitable categories.
>
> Thanks for agreeing with me - you are in a small but exceptional aristocracy
>
> > Learn category theory :-)
> >
> PLEASE not that !. "Category theory is the esperanto of mathematics - TP".

Bah, what use is Esperanto for Chinese and Japanese?

> Please feel free to quote me
>
"Category theory is abstract nonsense."
You may not quote me as it's not my quote.

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