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* Fix Mac Lane reference

* Fix improperly directed quotes

* Add fixes to errata-1.3.0.md
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## A list of typos/mistakes that were fixed after the release of the new edition (1.3.0) (12 August, 2019).
(see errata for the original edition until 1.3.0 [here](https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/blob/master/errata-1.0.0.md))

### Preface

* [#278](https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/pull/278) - Fixed reference to Saunders Mac Lane's *Categories for the Working Mathematician*. Was previously misreferenced as "*Category Theory* for the Working Mathematician."

### 12. Limits and Colimits

* [#278](https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/pull/278) - Fixed formatting of quotation marks around "selecting." Were previously pointing the wrong direction.
### 18. Adjunctions

* [#228](https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/pull/228) - Typo (adjuncion -> adjunction)
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Of course when using hand-waving arguments you run the risk of saying
something blatantly wrong, so I will try to make sure that there is
solid mathematical theory behind informal arguments in this book. I do
have a worn-out copy of Saunders Mac Lane's \emph{Category Theory for
have a worn-out copy of Saunders Mac Lane's \emph{Categories for
the Working Mathematician} on my nightstand.

Since this is category theory \emph{for programmers} I will illustrate
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morphisms.

What's great about this approach is that it builds on categorical
notions, eschewing the imprecise descriptions like "selecting
objects", taken straight from the hunter-gatherer lexicon of our
notions, eschewing the imprecise descriptions like ``selecting
objects,'' taken straight from the hunter-gatherer lexicon of our
ancestors. And, incidentally, it is also easily generalized, because
nothing can stop us from using categories more complex than $\cat{2}$
to define our patterns.
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