Monthly Archives: June 2014

Anafunctors

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Brent

This is part four in a series of posts on avoiding the axiom of choice (part one, part two, part three). In my previous post, we considered the “Axiom of Protoequivalence”—that is, the statement that every fully faithful, essentially surjective … Continue reading →

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AC and equivalence of categories

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Brent

This is part three in a series of posts on avoiding the axiom of choice (part one, part two). In my previous post, I explained one place where the axiom of choice often shows up in category theory, namely, when … Continue reading →

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