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Basic concepts

📄️ Category

To define what a category is, we need to clarify a few terms. In many cases, we will use the term set, a collection of unique elements, and class for collections of sets. The use of the term class may depend on the foundational context, such as Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory or von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory. For simplicity, we will use the term set if its elements have no additional properties and the term class if the elements represent structures with properties. Thus, we can define what a category is.