I looks like like you would also need the resizing rule to place hProp into a lower universe. Is it so? Vladimir. > On Apr 6, 2017, at 1:55 AM, 'Martin Escardo' via Homotopy Type Theory wrote: > > > > On 06/04/17 01:23, Jon Sterling wrote: >> I am curious, does this development use univalence except to establish >> functional extensionality and propositional extensionality? The reason I >> ask is, I wonder if it is possible to do a similar development of >> computability theory in extensional type theory and get analogous >> results. Additionally, I am curious whether you have found cases in >> which univalence clarifies or sharpens this development, since I'm >> trying to keep track of interesting use-cases of univalence. > > Currently the only place that uses univalence is the equivalence of > (X->Y) with the type of single-valued relations X->Y->U. (This was > proved by Egbert in his mater thesis.) > > But another point, compared with previous developments in topos logic > an extensional type theory, is that a number of things work as they > should for types more general than sets by replacing > subobject-classifier-valued functions by universe-valued functions. > > An example is this: Consider the lifing in its representation with > subsingletons > > L(X) = (Sigma(A:X->U), isProp(Sigma(x:X), A(x))). > > If we replaced U by Prop in this definition, this wouldn't work well > for types that are not sets. > > For example, if X is the circle, any function into a set, and hence > any function into Prop, is constant, and so L(X) would be > contractible. > > However, with the definition as it is, with U, we always have that X > is embedded into L(X), even if X is not a set. > > The same phenomenon applies to the equivalence of (X->Y) with the type > of single-valued relations X->Y->U discussed above, but this > additionally requires univalence. > > Martin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Homotopy Type Theory" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to HomotopyTypeThe...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.