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Categories (Section 11.1).
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Examples of categories (Section 11.2).
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The quadruple adjunction $\pi _{0}\dashv {\webleft (-\webright )_{\mathsf{disc}}}\dashv \operatorname {\mathrm{Obj}}\dashv {\webleft (-\webright )_{\mathsf{indisc}}}$ between the category of categories and the category of sets (Section 11.3).
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Groupoids, categories in which all morphisms admit inverses (Section 11.4).
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Functors (Section 11.5).
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The conditions one may impose on functors in decreasing order of importance:
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Section 11.6 introduces the foundationally important conditions one may impose on functors, such as faithfulness, conservativity, essential surjectivity, etc.
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Section 11.7 introduces more conditions one may impose on functors that are still important but less omni-present than those of Section 11.6, such as being dominant, being a monomorphism, being pseudomonic, etc.
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Section 11.8 introduces some rather rare or uncommon conditions one may impose on functors that are nevertheless still useful to explicit record in this chapter.
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Natural transformations (Section 11.9).
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The various categorical and 2-categorical structures formed by categories, functors, and natural transformations (Section 11.10).
11 Categories
This chapter contains some elementary material about categories, functors, and natural transformations. Notably, we discuss and explore:
