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From: "Martín Hötzel Escardó" <"escard..."@gmail.com>
To: Homotopy Type Theory <HomotopyT...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: "Identifications" ?
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 12:43:27 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <994babd9-6067-41a1-b12a-17c149138fdb@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BBC0B8F3-AB16-4196-B9B9-B1B3031B2D7D@nottingham.ac.uk>


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The meanings of "equal" and "identical" are the same. They both mean 
"same", and are equivalent to "equivalent" according to most dictionaries. 

Try not to be too judgmental, Thorsten.

Best,
Martin

On Monday, 4 May 2020 10:35:53 UTC+1, Thorsten Altenkirch wrote:
>
> I am just reading a paper which uses the word “Identification” instead of 
> equality. I think this has been proposed by Bob Harper. Can anybody 
> enlighten me what is the difference between identifications and equality? 
> Maybe there is an identification between them but they are not equal? Are 
> the real numbers 0.999… identified or are they equal?
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-07 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-04  9:35 Thorsten Altenkirch
2020-05-04 10:59 ` [HoTT] " stre...
2020-05-04 11:04   ` Steve Awodey
2020-05-04 11:17   ` Thorsten Altenkirch
2020-05-04 11:42     ` Nicolai Kraus
2020-05-04 12:04       ` Thorsten Altenkirch
2020-05-04 12:06     ` Thomas Streicher
2020-05-04 12:12       ` Thorsten Altenkirch
2020-05-04 12:39         ` Thomas Streicher
2020-05-04 13:16 ` Michael Shulman
2020-05-04 14:17   ` Thorsten Altenkirch
2020-05-04 14:48   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 15:46     ` Nicolai Kraus
2020-05-04 15:57       ` Thorsten Altenkirch
2020-05-04 15:59     ` Michael Shulman
2020-05-04 16:07       ` Steve Awodey
2020-05-04 16:17         ` Thorsten Altenkirch
2020-05-04 16:53           ` Steve Awodey
2020-05-04 17:25             ` Thorsten Altenkirch
2020-05-04 17:43               ` Michael Shulman
2020-05-04 17:55               ` Steve Awodey
2020-05-04 16:21         ` Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
2020-05-04 16:16       ` Joyal, André
2020-05-04 20:38         ` Joyal, André
2020-05-07 19:43 ` Martín Hötzel Escardó [this message]
2020-05-08 10:41   ` [HoTT] " Thorsten Altenkirch

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