classifying morphism

noun

classifying morphism

noun
1

Category theory, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A morphism from an object to the subobject classifier which corresponds to a unique subobject of the said object, which subobject is the pullback, along this morphism, of the "true" global element of the subobject classifier.

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