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Well done (although it is still a useful binary category; numbers are either prime or composite, semiprimes be damned).
Indeed, but one of Eliezer's points was that mathematical objects, e.g. the set of prime numbers, don't need labels. I can write
without giving it a name at all, or just call it P.