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From: Bas Spitters <spitters@cs.ru.nl>
To: Thomas Streicher <streicher@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Cc: Toby Bartels <toby+categories@ugcs.caltech.edu>, categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Is equality evil?
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:50:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OzIW1-000276-Tk@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1OxKoj-0004xW-B9@mlist.mta.ca>

> Intensional Id-types might be convenient for providing a logic where equality
> gets identified with isomorphism or even weak equivalence. But that's not
> avoiding equality it's rather `liberal'ising it.

Vladimir Voevodsky just posted a draft manuscript about these issues:
http://www.math.ias.edu/~vladimir/Site3/Univalent_Foundations.html

Bas


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-15 11:43 are fibrations evil? Thomas Streicher
2010-09-16  0:28 ` Michael Shulman
2010-09-16  1:14 ` Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
2010-09-16  5:14 ` Is equality evil? Vaughan Pratt
2010-09-17  8:28   ` Toby Bartels
2010-09-18 14:11     ` Thomas Streicher
2010-09-19 20:30       ` Erik Palmgren
2010-09-24 12:50       ` Bas Spitters [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20100918141110.GC9467@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
2010-09-22  4:00       ` Toby Bartels
2010-09-25 16:18         ` Michael Shulman
     [not found]       ` <20100922040041.GB14958@ugcs.caltech.edu>
2010-09-22 10:27         ` Thomas Streicher
2010-09-16  8:50 ` why it matters that fibrations are "evil" Thomas Streicher
     [not found] ` <AANLkTinosTZ2NQW9biPxiwpX9zPi5m=kwvA16nHjK=Xu@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-16  9:47   ` are fibrations evil? Thomas Streicher
2010-09-16 10:00 ` Prof. Peter Johnstone
     [not found] ` <alpine.LRH.2.00.1009161023190.12162@siskin.dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
2010-09-16 10:46   ` Thomas Streicher
2010-09-17  7:44     ` Toby Bartels
     [not found] ` <20100916094755.GA19976@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
2010-09-17  5:01   ` Michael Shulman
2010-09-18 13:48     ` Thomas Streicher
     [not found] ` <20100918134829.GB9467@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
2010-09-20 16:25   ` Michael Shulman
2010-09-24 15:30 Is equality evil?‏ Mattias Wikström
2010-09-25  0:16 Is equality evil? Fred E.J. Linton

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