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Category of finite sets (FinSet)

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The category whose objects are finite sets and whose morphisms are all functions between them. Finite categorical limits and colimits are the ordinary set constructions. It is essentially small: a skeleton of a category consists of the sets {0,…,n−1} for n∈N. Its Yoneda embedding preserves limits but generally does not preserve coproducts: evaluating y1⨿y1 at a two-element set gives two elements, while evaluating y2 gives four.

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