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Questions asking for the intuition behind some definition, conjecture, proof etc. In other words, questions designed to improve or to acquire understanding on a conceptual or intuitive level, as opposed to on a technical or formal level. When asking such a question it can be helpful to include a rough description of ones understanding of the subject at hand (on a technical level).

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Abstract nonsense versions of "combinatorial" group theory questions

Sylow subgroups are an example of a type of object satisfying a sort of universal property. Exploring other objects with similar properties gave birth to the modern theory of finite soluble groups in …
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Why is there no Cayley's Theorem for rings?

Every (associative, unital) ring is a subring of the endomorphism ring of its underlying additive group. Rings act on abelian groups; groups act on sets. The universal action on an abelian group is …
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