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Re: SUO: Propositions (was Peirce's MS 514)




At 24-03-01 00:16, John F. Sowa wrote:
>With that caveat, I agree that there are a lot of interesting
>possibilities for using category theory.  Joe Goguen & Co. have
>been using "institution theory" for related purposes:
>
>    http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/384650.html
>
>   "Abstract: Institutions formalize the intuitive notion
>   of logical system, including both syntax and semantics."
>
>Following is the plain text version of the HTML file cited above.

### FYI and for what it's worth in the same Stanford bookstore buying spree 
I mentioned before I grabbed a copy of "Conceptual Mathemathics" by Lawvere 
& Shanuel, Cambridge UP. I'm finding it to be a really decent intro into 
category theory for dummies (although you have to translate some concepts 
into a more common terminology, e.g. pushouts and pullbacks are not called 
as such).

### good luck

--Robert Meersman back home at last -for a few days- and working on a 
really withering reply to Pat Hayes' last contribution to the 
Occurrents/Continuants" thread  :-)
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