Jon,
Peirce was using the word 'category' in rhe tradition from
Aristotle to Kant. That tradition is still alive and well in
philosophy.
It's unfortunate that the 20th c mathematicians used the
same term for a different kind of mathematical theory. But as Robert M.
hass been saying, it's
John, Joe, List:
Thanks for the links. "A Categorical Manifesto" provides the kind of clear
and succinct definition that I have been seeking.
JG: To each species of mathematical structure, there corresponds a
category whose objects have that structure, and whose morphisms preserve
it. (p. 2)
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}Robert- thanks for the lesson - which is still beyond me...but I'm
getting closer to figuring out the game...
I'd like an example - showing how the two Dicent Symbols, in this
case, two poisons, so to speak,
List,
This study shows how nicotine, charged with a very negative image to the
point of being considered a lethal poison (dicent symbol) can be competed
in the collective consciousness (the commens) by the rise in the lattice of
classes of signs of an image by rational and non-rational (magic
