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From: Andrej.Bauer@CS.cmu.edu
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Topos theory and large cardinals
Date: 01 Mar 2000 22:29:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vka3dqaf3rd.fsf@gs2.sp.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)


Can you complete this analogy?

  ``Large cardinals are to ZFC, as ???? are to topos theory.''

One answer is "Grothendieck universes", but they correspond to rather
small large cardinals. Can we go further than that?

--
Andrej Bauer
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
http://andrej.com



             reply	other threads:[~2000-03-02  3:29 UTC|newest]

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2000-03-02  3:29 Andrej.Bauer [this message]
2000-03-21 21:32 F W Lawvere

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