From: Thomas Streicher <stre...@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: Andrej Bauer <andrej...@andrej.com>
Cc: Homotopy Type Theory <homotopyt...@googlegroups.com>,
Univalent Mathematics <univalent-...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [HoTT] A small observation on cumulativity and the failure of initiality
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:52:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171014095243.GA29903@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB0nkh1dApftkpR+KWJS445wxcab2zqt6o1FBgybjCrc-U0neA@mail.gmail.com>
Andrej,
you are right in the sense that the free model of a certain type
theory T is not trivially isomorphic the syntax modulo. The late
Voevodsky suggested this to be an important problem and Peter
Lumsdaine has worked on it for some time.
It feels a bit like a non-mathematical problem in the sense of being
more organizational or CS like. But maybe one should think about ways
to introduce variables in a systematic way for making categorical
combinator based syntax more palatable. There is more hope this way
get something than strating from raw syntax and how to tame it
semantically.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-14 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-12 18:43 Dimitris Tsementzis
2017-10-12 22:31 ` [HoTT] " Michael Shulman
2017-10-13 4:30 ` Dimitris Tsementzis
2017-10-13 15:41 ` Michael Shulman
2017-10-13 21:51 ` Dimitris Tsementzis
2017-10-13 0:09 ` Steve Awodey
2017-10-13 0:44 ` Alexander Altman
2017-10-13 15:50 ` Michael Shulman
2017-10-13 16:17 ` Steve Awodey
2017-10-13 16:23 ` Michael Shulman
2017-10-13 16:36 ` Matt Oliveri
2017-10-14 14:56 ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-10-15 7:45 ` Thomas Streicher
2017-10-15 8:37 ` Thierry Coquand
2017-10-15 9:26 ` Thomas Streicher
2017-10-16 5:30 ` Andrew Polonsky
2017-10-15 10:12 ` Michael Shulman
2017-10-15 13:57 ` Thomas Streicher
2017-10-15 14:53 ` Michael Shulman
2017-10-15 16:00 ` Michael Shulman
2017-10-15 21:00 ` Matt Oliveri
2017-10-16 5:09 ` Michael Shulman
2017-10-16 12:30 ` Neel Krishnaswami
2017-10-16 13:35 ` Matt Oliveri
2017-10-16 15:00 ` Michael Shulman
2017-10-16 16:34 ` Matt Oliveri
2017-10-16 13:45 ` Matt Oliveri
2017-10-16 15:05 ` Michael Shulman
2017-10-16 16:20 ` Matt Oliveri
2017-10-16 16:37 ` Michael Shulman
2017-10-16 10:01 ` Thomas Streicher
2017-10-15 20:06 ` Matt Oliveri
2017-10-13 8:03 ` Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
2017-10-13 8:10 ` Thomas Streicher
2017-10-14 7:33 ` Thorsten Altenkirch
2017-10-14 9:37 ` Andrej Bauer
2017-10-14 9:52 ` Thomas Streicher [this message]
2017-10-14 10:51 ` SV: " Erik Palmgren
2017-10-15 23:42 ` Andrej Bauer
2017-10-15 10:42 ` Thorsten Altenkirch
2017-10-13 22:05 ` Dimitris Tsementzis
2017-10-13 14:12 ` Robin Adams
[not found] <B14E498C-FA19-41D2-B196-42FAF85F8CD8@princeton.edu>
2017-10-14 9:55 ` [HoTT] " Alexander Altman
2017-10-16 10:21 Thorsten Altenkirch
2017-10-16 10:42 ` Andrew Polonsky
2017-10-16 14:12 ` Thorsten Altenkirch
2017-10-16 10:21 Thorsten Altenkirch
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