Metamath Proof Explorer


Theorem catccat

Description: The category of categories is a category, see remark 3.48 in Adamek p. 40. (Clearly it cannot be an element of itself, hence it is " U -large".) (Contributed by Mario Carneiro, 3-Jan-2017)

Ref Expression
Hypothesis catccat.c C = CatCat U
Assertion catccat U V C Cat

Proof

Step Hyp Ref Expression
1 catccat.c C = CatCat U
2 eqid Base C = Base C
3 1 2 catccatid U V C Cat Id C = x Base C id func x
4 3 simpld U V C Cat