Andre wrote:
I guess you have introduced the "evil" terminology because you wanted people to pay attention to the fact that certain constructions in category theory and higher category theory are not invariant under equivalences. If this is so, you have succeeded in your goal.
Good! But I never really thought of it as a piece of "terminology" that I "introduced". I've never used in any published paper, for example. I've always thought of it as a JOKE. In the future I'll try to avoid telling this joke in the presence of people who find it upsetting. This should be easy, because I'm not working on pure math anymore, except for a few projects that I'm trying to finish up. I'm working on environmental issues. The planet is headed for an ecological disaster within this century. We cannot prevent it, we can only minimize the damage. I hope some people on the category theory mailing list can help out here: http://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/Azimuth+Project If you aren't sure how to help, send me an email. Best, jb [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]