forgetfulness

forgetful | American Dictionary

forgetful
adjective
us/fərˈɡet·fəl, fɔr-/
likely to forget things:
She worries because her father is getting forgetful.

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Therefore, filtered colimits of 'classical' algebras are created by the forgetful functor.
They know that some of the informants may be forgetful, mistaken, dishonest, or motivated by a desire for publicity or even revenge.
In general, a structure is called free when it is left-adjoint to a forgetful functor.
He could hardly walk and became forgetful, confused and incontinent.
Forgetful but not forgotten: assessment by a specialist service.
There is a 'forgetful functor' from bihaviours to behaviours, which commutes with all connectives so far defined.
Since in the practical cases is a forgetful functor from complicated structures to simpler ones, one can find weak inclusion systems for the complicated structures.
For example, why are narcissistic individuals often forgetful of names, prejudiced, inconsiderate of others' time, and unable to remain in love?
Patients have difficulty learning new information and are forgetful of day-to-day events.
There is an obvious forgetful functor from the category of open nets to the category of ordinary nets.
The existence of these adjoints implies that the forgetful functor preserves limits and colimits.
Definitions were given for the 'canonical' descendants that behave well under the forgetful morphism, as the pullbacks from a space with fewer marked points.
The first kind of property is related to left adjoints of the forgetful functors of specification morphisms.
Preservation of filtered colimits by forgetful functors is a well-established categorical concept of finiteness in categorical algebra.
The resident was depicted as either alert or forgetful, and the caregiver either used secondary baby talk or a more neutral variant.
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