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Timeline for answer to Precise meaning of "picking a basis"? by Carlo Beenakker

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Jan 16 at 16:48 comment added LSpice @TimothyChow, re, I think I meant "inverse" (which is of course equivalent to the converse). But, yes, certainly not "contrapositive", thanks!
Jan 16 at 16:31 comment added Timothy Chow @LSpice I think you mean the "converse" rather than the "contrapositive"?
Jan 15 at 23:13 history edited Carlo Beenakker CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jan 15 at 23:13 comment added LSpice I think I buy only the contrapositive of your second sentence (a proof does not pick a basis if it defines a functorial construction—although I think one could fruitfully argue against even this, since there are a lot of contexts in which one does a construction that clearly does involve a basis but then shows that it is actually basis independent), but not your second sentence as written (surely there are other ways to be non-functorial?).
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Jan 15 at 22:43 history answered Carlo Beenakker CC BY-SA 4.0