Implication details
Claim: If a category is direct and is essentially small and is thin, then it is finitely coaccessible.
Proof: By the proof of this implication, the category has cofiltered limits, and the limit of a cofiltered diagram is one of its objects. We claim that every object is finitely copresentable. Then the claim follows by taking to be a collection of representatives of all objects up to isomorphism, which is essentially small by assumption, since every object is trivially a cofiltered limit of objects in .Since the category is thin, is finitely copresentable if and only if for every cofiltered diagram whose limit satisfies , there is an object of the diagram with . Since is an object of the diagram, we may take .
This implication has a dual.