Category talk:Equivalents of the Axiom of Choice

Minor thing, but I think it would be better to have either "Equivalence of" or "Equivalents to", "Equivalents of" seems awkward. No? --GFauxPas 07:07, 17 February 2012 (EST)
 * Not really to me, but I have to suppress Dutch literal translation, which would indeed make 'Equivalents of'. 'Equivalents to' is indeed better. --Lord_Farin 07:25, 17 February 2012 (EST)
 * "Equivalents of" is better grammar. Something is "equivalent to" when "equivalent" is being used as an adjective. On the other hand, "an equivalent" as a noun is "an equivalent of". So "Zorn's Lemma is an equivalent of AoC" while "ZL is equivalent to AoC". See, it's subtle. But then "equivalents" is the plural of the noun form, so "equivalents to" is incorrect. This page discusses "the various equivalents (i.e. equivalent statements) of AoC". If you like it can be renamed to "statements equivalent to AoC" or some such. As for me, I think the name as it stands is fine. --prime mover 14:07, 17 February 2012 (EST)


 * Having said all that, I'm not sure I like this category anyway (maybe I'm just prejudiced because the author seriously rubbed me up the wrong way by deleting several hours of work earlier today without any consultation), but I can't think of a better approach at the moment. Might want to reconsider what category/ies it's a subcategory of. --prime mover 14:10, 17 February 2012 (EST)


 * I think the category has right of existence; it's plainly convenient to have them together somewhere (as many people are interested in precisely these statements). Thanks for the linguistic notes. I suppressed my intuition thinking it was literal translation from Dutch only, but apparently it was correct anyway. --Lord_Farin 17:30, 17 February 2012 (EST)