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| Oct 27, 2022 at 6:01 | history | closed |
Francois Ziegler Joseph Van Name Vladimir Dotsenko CommunityBot |
Duplicate of The meaning and purpose of "canonical'' | |
| Oct 26, 2022 at 12:55 | comment | added | Henry | Surely the "first example" is the natural numbers, even if there is some debate as to whether they include $0$. As in Kronecker's Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk (God made the integers, all else is the work of man) | |
| Oct 26, 2022 at 8:12 | history | edited | gmvh |
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| Oct 26, 2022 at 8:09 | comment | added | Exit path | “Natural” morphisms $X \to Y$ in a category usually come from applying a natural transformation, hence the name. I usually just use the term “standard” (e.g. the standard basis) when something isn’t canonical but feels intuitive. | |
| Oct 26, 2022 at 7:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 26, 2022 at 7:30 | history | asked | A. J. Pan-Collantes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |