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Questions of the kind "What's the name for a X that satisfies property Y?"

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What does the adjective "natural" actually mean?

The sense in which "natural" is used by many modern mathematicians (as coming from natural transformation of functors) is different from "canonical" (which means that it does not involve making any ch …
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