There is just one -category, namely the truth value True. Compare the concepts of (−1)-category (a truth value in general) and 0-category (a set). The point of -categories is that they complete some patterns in the periodic table of -categories. (They also shed light on the theory of homotopy groups and n-stuff.)
For example, there should be a -category of -categories; this is the true truth value. The category of -categories is a monoidal category in a unique way; then a category enriched over this is a -category; such is necessarily an enriched groupoid. If you think of a -category as a 0-poset, then this makes a -category a (−1)-poset. If you think of a -category as a (−1)-groupoid?, then this makes a -category a (−2)-groupoid?.
For an introduction to -categories and -categories see page 11 of
-categories and -categories were discovered (or invented) by James Dolan and Toby Bartels. To witness these concepts in the process of being discovered, read the discussion here:
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