Categories in Context: Historical, Foundational, and Philosophical †
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kinds of structured systems in terms of schematic types, as opposed to answering ‘What is (or where is!) a structure?’, then why should we be troubled by the fact that ‘[b]y themselves they [the category-theoretic axioms] assert nothing’ that ‘They merely tell us what it is to be a structure of a certain kind’ and thus are ‘unlike the axioms of set theory, [in that] its axioms are not assertory?’ (p. 7).
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