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"All men are mortal"
Jul. 2nd, 2017 09:36 amIt's amazing how the concept of the terminal object makes the structure of syllogisms transparent.
Jul. 2nd, 2017
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Jul. 2nd, 2017 04:09 pmI wonder whether the subobject classifier approach can be used to detect new developments in technology. For example, expressions like _horseless carriage_, _smarphone with no keyboard_, _driverless car_, _artificial intelligence_ indicate that the object in question doesn't belong to a boolean topos ( or is it a slice topos?).
TIL: final objects
Jul. 2nd, 2017 10:15 pmSpeaking categorically of Zarathustra, he invented one of the most generic subobject classifiers - Good vs Bad.
The Greeks invented another one: mortal vs immortal.
Galileo Galilei postulated that mechanical systems with speed=0 (first derivative) as the final object are equivalent to systems with acceleration=0 (second derivative) as the final object.
Sir Isaac Newton postulated that gravitation has a final object - g (third derivative = 0).
etc. etc.
The Greeks invented another one: mortal vs immortal.
Galileo Galilei postulated that mechanical systems with speed=0 (first derivative) as the final object are equivalent to systems with acceleration=0 (second derivative) as the final object.
Sir Isaac Newton postulated that gravitation has a final object - g (third derivative = 0).
etc. etc.