[Haskell-cafe] Re: categories and monoids

Am Dienstag, 17. März 2009 18:43 schrieben Sie:

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch

wrote:

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What is a “generalized monoid”? According to the grammatical construction (adjective plus noun), it should be a special kind of monoid

There's no such implication in English. The standard example used by linguists is "fake gun".

Okay, but this is a corner case isn’t it? And the phrase “generalized monoid” has another problem. It’s not a single monoid that is generalized but the “monoid concept”. The class of monoids is extended to become the class of categories. Best wishes, Wolfgang