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Does anyone else study Category Theory in the hope of finding Revelation/Truth? I'm mostly kidding but for some reason CT scratches a different kind of itch.
by zactato 3y ago
Does anyone else study Category Theory in the hope of finding Revelation/Truth? I'm mostly kidding but for some reason CT scratches a different kind of itch.
- rolisz 3y agoI've watched some lectures about CT (and they flew over my head pretty quickly) and I did get the feeling that on one hand there is some deep insight there (that I was barely able to glimpse), but on the other hand it felt like that eagle eye view that CT gives is missing too many details.
- passion__desire 3y agoPhysics say it's all probabilities. CT says it's all relationships. CT is related amusingly to abstract nonsense. Basically CT's ability to prove things at such a high level that provides no insights into the going ons in low level details. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/823289/abstract-nonsense-proof https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/823289/abstract-non...
- red_trumpet 3y agoThe term "abstract nonsense" was actually coined in context of category theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense#History