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I’m not sure what to do with the material originally by Todd Trimble, considering that he said in the article that
For now it is an experimental notion, testing how far it might be possible to “do” enriched category theory (including working with enriched functor categories) without regard to size considerations. To what extent they can be said to “exist” is part of some ongoing investigation, but we give the axioms below.
and epistemology is more well known in the non-2-categorical world as a branch of philosophy focused on knowledge.
Nothing for you to do, particularly. I’ll probably remove the article from nLab main until I feel ready to do more myself.
You’re right that the naming is dubious (although it has a personal meaning for me).
I went to HowTo to remind myself how to remove a page, and it now says to make a request at the nForum. So I request that the nLab article epistemology be removed. The intent is to free up that title for anyone wanting to talk about the term as it is used in philosophy.
(I have no memory of actually creating this page to begin with. I have an old page at my personal web under that title, but that one is mine.)
On that page, Todd writes:
Called an “epistemology” for reasons that were obscure to me then and even more so now
So it seems an unnecessary cause of confusion. But, upon checking, it looks like search engines do not currently associate “Trimble” with “epistemology”, therefore it might still be time to find an appropriate term and then promote that on the nLab, instead.
Finding appropriate terminology is not to be disregarded in a field that consists entirely of language.
On that page, Todd writes:
Called an “epistemology” for reasons that were obscure to me then and even more so now
So it seems an unnecessary cause of confusion. But, upon checking, it looks like search engines do not currently associate “Trimble” with “epistemology”, therefore it might still be time to find an appropriate term and then promote that on the nLab, instead.
Finding appropriate terminology is not to be disregarded in a field that consists entirely of language.
So it seems an unnecessary cause of confusion. But, upon checking, it looks like search engines do not currently associate “Trimble” with “epistemology”
This is exactly why I wanted to add a disambiguation, because I wanted to find Todd’s page on epistemologies, but search engines were only returning this page.
therefore it might still be time to find an appropriate term and then promote that on the nLab, instead.
My impression from that page is that it is not ongoing research, so there would be little point finding a new term for the concept. I wanted to refer to the concept for historical reasons, rather than to promote the terminology. But perhaps there is a better approach.
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