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| Nov 21, 2009 at 20:49 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | I guess a more opaque way to answer the question along these lines is to say that forgetful functors usually have left adjoints because we (meaning mathematicians in general) usually work with monadic algebraic structures. | |
| Nov 21, 2009 at 18:00 | history | answered | Mark Hovey | CC BY-SA 2.5 |