4 May
2001
4 May
'01
9:04 p.m.
i wrote: |phenomenon of adjoint linear operators is, in yetter's terminology, a |sort of decategorification of the phenomenon of adjoint functors. now that i think about i guess it was crane rather than yetter who started using the term "categorification". is it correct that lawvere and schanuel use the term "objectification" (or something like that) to mean pretty much the same thing as what crane meant by "categorification"? i think i might actually prefer "objectification" here but i mostly hang out near sub-communities where "categorification" has caught on to a certain extent.