Add three categories of large families of sets - #369
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This PR adds three categories that are defined similarly but have very different properties. Here,$I$ is a collection that is not essentially small.
These categories are similar to Vect(I) from #365. All properties have been decided.
The motivation was to contribute to this milestone and to add an example of a cartesian closed category without a generating collection. In fact, Set(I)1 is such an example, while Set(I)0 is at least a locally cartesian closed category without a generating collection; this combination was also missing before.
The product category SetI provides the first example of a category in the database that is cartesian closed and not locally essentially small, but it satisfies lots of other new combinations as well (44). For example, it is an elementary topos without a generating collection.
In total, 57 new combinations are witnessed by the three categories, and the number of missing combinations has decreased from 467 to 410.
It is a great surprise to me that Set(I)1 is the first example of a category in the database that is complete (or even has powers) but does not have a natural numbers object.
Moreover, a result has been strengthened, stating that a cartesian closed category with an initial object has a strict initial object. In fact, this already holds in a locally cartesian closed category.
Finally, the category [Setdisc, Ab] has been renamed and generalized to AbI. Its ID changed from
Set_disc_AbtoAb_family. As for the category Vect(I), its IDVect_familyhas been changed toVect_family_mostly_0to differentiate it from VectI (which is not in the database yet, but we have the variants SetI and AbI already).