Allegory

A technical mathematical object which bears the same resemblance to binary relations as categories do to functions and sets.

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Freyd, P. J. and Scedrov, A. Categories, Allegories. Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland, 1990.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Allegory." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Allegory.html

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