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| <p>Now the discovery of ideas as general as these is chiefly the willingness to make a brash or speculative abstraction, in this case supported by the pleasure of purloining words from the philosophers: “Category” from Aristotle and Kant, “Functor” from Carnap …, and “natural transformation” from then current informal parlance.</p> | | <p>Now the discovery of ideas as general as these is chiefly the willingness to make a brash or speculative abstraction, in this case supported by the pleasure of purloining words from the philosophers: “Category” from Aristotle and Kant, “Functor” from Carnap …, and “natural transformation” from then current informal parlance.</p> |
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− | | align="right" | Mac Lane, Cat.Work.Math. 29–30 | + | | align="right" | Saunders Mac Lane, Cat.Work.Math. 29–30 |
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| <p>I even hope that what I have done may prove a first step toward the resolution of one of the main problems of logic, that of producing a method for the discovery of methods in mathematics.</p> | | <p>I even hope that what I have done may prove a first step toward the resolution of one of the main problems of logic, that of producing a method for the discovery of methods in mathematics.</p> |
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− | | align="right" | C.S. Peirce, CP 3.364 | + | | align="right" | |
| + | <p>Charles S. Peirce, CP 3.364, “On the Algebra of Logic : A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation”,<br> |
| + | <i>American Journal of Mathematics</i>, 7(2), 180–202, (1885).</p> |
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