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> To be clear, I mean the incredibly useful notion of realizing that cross-domain knowledge can share structure. Is there somewhere you can suggest that I can
by nomoreplease 5y ago
> To be clear, I mean the incredibly useful notion of realizing that cross-domain knowledge can share structure.
Is there somewhere you can suggest that I can read more about this notion?
- Koshkin 5y agoBy "share structure" they mean (the various degrees of) analogy - a widely-known concept that has been made rigorous within the framework of category theory (via the notion of a functor).
- randcraw 5y agoCheck out this section of the SEP entry on Category Theory: 3. Philosophical Significance https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/ I suspect a lot of the formal work on ontology involves CT.