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Re: Misclassification of packages; "libs" and "doc" sections



Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> writes:

> I prefer only formal treatments of philosophical terms suchs as "Category"
> or "Identity". For "Category", I'd be inclined to think in terms
> of "Category Theory" which seems to me the sole viable treatment. The
> term in the mathematical theory is a descendant of Aristotle's "Category".

Ah, but Category Theory has nothing at all to do, anymore, with
Aristotle's "category", or its scholastic descendants, or its use in
Kant.  Those are all related, and they have only a vague relation to
the term in math.

Thomas



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