Discussion of Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations
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From: Steve Awodey <awo...@cmu.edu>
To: Andrej Bauer <andrej...@andrej.com>
Cc: Homotopy Type Theory <HomotopyT...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [HoTT] Is synthetic the right word?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:35:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EA59242A-A578-48AD-919C-FE324E7B472A@cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB0nkh1uyh_xC_zX3Fpb-Ec_Gjrgi=puZfEWgf4oWKjWy7TFrA@mail.gmail.com>


> On Jun 16, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Andrej Bauer <andrej...@andrej.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:04 PM, andré hirschowitz <a...@unice.fr> wrote:
>> I am afraid of the discussion which could follow if I try to argue that the
>> synthetic sphere is definitely different of the classical one...
> 
> The HoTT objects, such as the circles and the spheres expressed as
> HITs, may be interpreted in many different models, some of which will
> give "old objects" and other "new ones". So at least at this level it
> is a bit pointless to discuss things in absolute terms. The HoTT
> proofs are *also* about the usual spheres.

yes - this is of course correct.

Regards,
Steve

> 
> With kind regards,
> 
> Andrej
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-16 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-15 18:26 andré hirschowitz
2016-06-15 23:13 ` [HoTT] " Joyal, André
2016-06-16  8:56   ` andré hirschowitz
2016-06-16 12:37     ` Steve Awodey
2016-06-16 13:04       ` andré hirschowitz
2016-06-16 13:15         ` Andrej Bauer
2016-06-16 13:35           ` Steve Awodey [this message]
2016-06-16 14:07           ` andré hirschowitz
2016-06-16 14:15             ` Bas Spitters
2016-06-16 14:38               ` Eric Finster
2016-06-16 17:07                 ` Thierry Coquand
2016-06-16 17:51                   ` Eric Finster
2016-06-16 17:58                     ` Thierry Coquand
2016-06-16 18:18                     ` Urs Schreiber
2016-06-16 18:41                       ` Eric Finster
2016-06-16 14:42               ` Urs Schreiber
2016-06-16 16:55               ` andré hirschowitz
2016-06-16 14:32             ` Marc Bezem
2016-06-16 14:50             ` Steve Awodey
2016-06-16 13:16         ` Bas Spitters
2016-06-16 13:33           ` Urs Schreiber
2016-06-16 15:03       ` Joyal, André
     [not found]         ` <CAOvivQyNdvTLN5f8e8OikWbCKye0fk7ZocGVMfLkWL+5moBaxw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-16 16:28           ` Joyal, André
2016-06-16 16:52             ` Cale Gibbard
2016-06-16 10:27 ` Andrej Bauer
2016-06-16 11:08   ` Nicola Gambino
2016-06-16 11:17   ` Cale Gibbard
     [not found]   ` <5762889C.8080401@cs.bham.ac.uk>
2016-06-16 19:18     ` Martin Escardo
2016-06-16 20:02       ` Egbert Rijke
2016-06-16 21:41       ` Joyal, André

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