Universal properties and Compositionality

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Continuing the train of thought from this tweet, I compare and contrast two perspectives on the philosophy of category theory: that it’s about describing how things can be composed of other things (“compositionality”), and that it’s about describing things in terms of their transformations into other things (“universal properties”). Some uses of category theory…

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