Answer by Toby Bartels for Does equality between sets contradict the...
I can't give you an answer that fully addresses what Lawvere and Rosebrugh were thinking, since I haven't asked them. (If you want to ask them, Rosebrugh runs a category-theory mailing list at...
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Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (with choice) is commonly accepted as the standard foundation of mathematics. It is a material set theory. This means that for every two objects/sets $a,b$ one can ask...
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