I am reading "Category Theory" (2nd ed.) of Awodey, and I'm stuck at page 96 (proposition 5.12) when pullbacks are presented as functors: The pullback under question corresponds to this square: $C' \times_C A \rightarrow_{h'} \hspace{1ex}A$ $\hspace{1em}\downarrow_{\alpha'} \hspace{6ex} \downarrow_\alpha$ $\hspace{1em}C' \hspace{3ex} \rightarrow_h \hspace{1ex} C$ Here is the statement of Awodey's book that I do not understand: > Pullback is a functor. That is, for fixed $C' \rightarrow_h C$ in a category $\mathbf{C}$ with pullbacks, there is a functor > > $h^* : \mathbf{C}/C \rightarrow \mathbf{C}/C'$ > > defined by > > $(A\rightarrow_\alpha C) \rightarrow (C'\times_C A \rightarrow C')$ > > where $\alpha'$ is the pullback of $\alpha$ along h The problem that I see is that, given initially: $\hspace{12ex}A$ $\hspace{12ex} \downarrow_\alpha$ $\hspace{1em}C' \hspace{3ex} \rightarrow_h \hspace{1ex} C$ there can be several pullbacks on it, for example, in addition to $(\alpha',h')$, there could be $(\alpha_2',h_2)$, and the unique condition is that there exist an isomorphism i such that $\alpha_2' = \alpha\circ i$ and $h_2' = h'\circ i$. Worse, given a pullback $(\alpha',h')$, one can build as much as pullback as there exist isomorphisms, as given any isomorphism j (with domain $C' \times_C A \rightarrow_{h'}$) the two arrows $(\alpha'\circ j,h' \circ j)$ form a new pullback. So, how could we build a functor if the image arrow is only defined up to an arbitrary isomorphism?