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We now present a basic concept due to Kan, which provides a different formulation for the properties of free objects and other universal constructions.
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Mac Lane, S. (1978). Adjoints. In: Categories for the Working Mathematician. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 5. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4721-8_5
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