“…The slogan a metric space is a category enriched in [0, ∞] naturally raises the question as to the precise role of [0, ∞] in this connection as opposed to any other monoidal category; a question that appears not to have been explicitly investigated earlier. Indirectly, this question is lurking under the surface in recent research (Bruno (2020); Chand and Weiss (2015); Flagg (1997); Hofmann and Reis (2013); Waszkiewicz (2011, 2012); Tholen (2018); Weiss (2015Weiss ( , 2016Weiss ( , 2017Weiss ( , 2018Weiss ( , 2019; Zhang (2007)) on quantale enriched categories.…”