Michael Barr wrote in part:
Aside from wanting to know what was meant here, should the first quote have put humility topos in quotes, for example, I would also like to know what is the subobject classifier of the humility topos.
As for what is meant, these links seem to be relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventio#Topoi http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_h.html#humility_topos_anchor I don't think that "humility topos" should be in quotation marks, although it looks like "topos" is supposed to be italicised (as a foreign word, always with the foregin plural "topoi"). If anybody knows an eager literary theorist, see if you can get a response to the question "What classifies parts in the humility topos?" (using the term "part" instead of "subobject" to make it more accessible). The best answer that I could get from the Internet is the 1601 Elizabethan Poor Law. But I fear that this is in too restricted a context (the subobject classifier of some slice of the humility topos). http://books.google.com/books?id=f9_a4d0j9DQC&pg=PA262&dq=classify+part+"humility+topos"%3F&ots=entEEqom3l --Toby [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]