Re: David Corfield : Mathematical Emotion

Jon Awbrey <[email protected]>
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Re: Mathematical Emotion ~~~> Categorical Impressionism
At: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/mathematical_emotion.html#c029406

| TvB: Isn't the name "category" a prank that Saunders Mac Lane played on philosophers
| because it as a very specific (and different) meaning in the works of Kant?

No, it is my impression that the connection is both close and deep.

See my speculative draft on "Precursors" at:
http://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/precursors+%3E+history/15

Jon Awbrey, 19 Nov 2009, 7:40 PM
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/mathematical_emotion.html#c029416

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