Call two functors two functors $H,H':S\longrightarrow T$ _weakly equivalent_, or _equivalent up to a self-equivalence of the source category_, iff there exists a self-equivalence of $s:S \longrightarrow S$ such that functors $H$ and $H'\circ s$ are equivalent. >Can this property "weakly equivalent" be nicely reformulated in the language of higher category theory? or maybe homotopy theory? >Are there theorems claiming that any two functors with certain properties (not involving choice) are weakly equivalent? That is, for such a theorem to be interesting, the properties should not explicitly involve an arbitrary choice, e.g. it should not say: choose a topology, bijection, self-equivalence and then construct the functor in the following way. Rather, a functor should be described in terms of preserving some structure etc. Below is the original question which was phrased very confusingly, it seems. I hope now it maybe is clearer. Say a functor is "well-defined up to a self-equivalence of the source category" by certain properties/definition/construction iff, well, for any two functors $H,H':S\longrightarrow T$ with satisfying these properties/definition/obtained by this construction, there exists a self-equivalence of $s:S \longrightarrow S$ such that functors $H$ and $H'\circ s$ are equivalent. >Is there a nice way to reformulate this property >"a functor unique up to self-equivalence of the source category", say in the language of 2-categories? >Are there any interesting examples of properties/definitions/constructions NOT involving arbitrary choice >and yet such that the functor is well-defined up to a self-equivalence of source category ? I am mostly interested to see an "algebraic" definition of a functor between "algebraic" categories which is well-defined up to self-equivalence but not well-defined.