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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If it helps, category theory is affectionately referred to by mathematicians as "generalized abstract nonsense".

It can be very confusing, but it's sort of a field of math that helps to relate ideas on one area to similar ones in another domain.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh. Neat. Like a sort of language interpreter trying to explain an analogy from one language to another? The words might not mean the same when it comes down to the word for word interpretation, but the idea behind them is what matters.