Categorical View of the Partite Lemma in Structural Ramsey Theory

We construct the main object of the Partite Lemma as the colimit over a certain diagram. This gives a purely category theoretic take on the Partite Lemma and establishes the canonicity of the object. Additionally, the categorical point of view allows us to unify the direct Partite Lemma in Nešetřil and Rödl (J Comb Theory Ser A 22(3):289–312, 1977; J Comb Theory Ser A 34(2):183–201, 1983; Discrete Math 75(1–3):327–334, 1989) with the dual Paritite Lemma in Solecki (J Comb Theory Ser A 117(6):704–714, 2010).