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by ianhorn 524 days ago
On the topic, do you know any approaches to infitesimals/differentials that do cotangents and pullbacks as primitives?

In practice, I always end up needing to work in cotangents, but deriving them is always roundabout in terms of the limit definition of pushforwards. Never found a nice way to swap which is primary and which is secondary, but it feels like there should be a clean view of it that way somewhere.