Kant

Definitions

1. A surname from German.
2. A city in Kyrgyzstan.
3. Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher.

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“So it is natural to speak⟳ of a category of all categories, which we call⟳ CAT, the objects of which are all the categories, and the arrows of which are all the functors. This raises genuine problems. Is CAT a category in itself? Our answer⟳ here is to treat⟳ CAT as a regulative idea; that is, an inevitable way of thinking about categories and functors, but not a strictly legitimate entity. (Compare⟳ the self, the universe, and God in Kant 1781.) Of course, general category theory applies to CAT, and this category that we do not quite believe⟳ in is the single one that we investigate⟳ the most.”

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