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Use 0-presentable object in the specified sense: its hom-functor preserves all small colimits. For a representable

H_{c}

, the Yoneda lemma identifies this hom-functor with evaluation at

c

. Given any small diagram

P_{j}

, pointwise colimits give

Nat (H_{c}, colim_{j} P_{j}) ≅ (colim_{j} P_{j}) (c) = colim_{j} P_{j} (c) ≅ colim_{j} Nat (H_{c}, P_{j}) .

(1)

These are the canonical comparison bijections, including for an empty diagram. Therefore every representable presheaf is 0-presentable, or a small projective object in this sense.

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