The theory of core algebras: its completeness.
Adámek, Herrlich, and Reiterman showed that a cocomplete category is cocomplete if there exists a small (full) subcategory such that every -object is a colimit of -objects. The authors of the present paper strengthened the result to totality in the sense of Street and Walters. Here we weaken the hypothesis, assuming only that the colimit closure is attained by transfinite iteration of the colimit closure process up to a fixed ordinal. This requires some investigations on generalized notions...
Categories whose Yoneda embedding has a left adjoint are known as total categories and are characterized by a strong cocompleteness property. We introduce the notion of multitotal category by asking the Yoneda embedding to be right multiadjoint and prove that this property is equivalent to totality of the formal product completion of . We also characterize multitotal categories with various types of generators; in particular, the existence of dense generators is inherited by the formal product...
The rationalistic denotational approach to semantics is not adequate for capturing the structural dimension of meaning, which is immanent in semiotic systems. The demand for a structural approach to semantics is intensified by a turn in Artificial Intelligence, introduced by Connectionism and Information Retrieval. This paper presents such a structural approach to semantics founded on the phenomenological and autopoietic paradigms and proposes a formalization with the help of category theory.