[FOM] acceptable enumerations
Vaughan Pratt
pratt at cs.stanford.edu
Mon Dec 26 20:49:26 EST 2011
One might say that the difference between set-theoretic and
category-theoretic foundations is that the former has everything to do
with cartesian closed categories, extended with 1+1 as the subobject
classifier (for the sake of the Axiom of Power Set). The latter has
everything to do with the Duality Principle, extended with adjunctions.
Vaughan Pratt
On 12/25/2011 5:46 PM, T.Forster at dpmms.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> Many thanks to my Cambridge colleague Peter Smith, who has shown me a
> passage in Odifreddi where all this is explained perfectly. As i
> suspected, it has something to do with cartesian-closed categories...
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