[FRIAM] Essentialism, Praedicamenta, Katēgoriai and Category Theory?
Stephen Guerin
stephen.guerin at simtable.com
Mon Nov 7 12:43:25 EST 2022
FWIW, related to you're wquery, my tabs open on my ECP-SJC flight are
related to attempting to formalize my babble of "The Dual of a Model" in
bidirectional path tracing. "Opposite Category" with associated links is
my current dive :-)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposite_category
Jon Z or Frank... does it bump any glass beads for you?
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022, 10:39 AM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
> In my fumbling about in Essentialism, I backed into the (implied to me)
> question of whether Aristotle's *Katēgoriai* in any way presaged or set
> the stage for the formal mathematics of Category Theory and if his
> *Praedicamenta* was in some way an Ontology of Epistemology?
>
> I'm guessing that the postModern OO and Patterns CS types here might have
> their own perspective and formalisms related to these questions?
>
> Glen's sideswipe at the term (ala Gibson) of *Affordances* a few threads
> back was maybe where these thoughts first bubbled into my awareness?
>
> <yah... probably all just word salad...>
>
>
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