On Monday, 4 November 2019 18:43:08 UTC, Kevin Buzzard wrote:
 It is exactly the interaction between constructivism and univalence which I do not understand well, and I think that a very good way to investigate it would be to do some highly non-constructive modern mathematics in a univalent type theory

Regarding *old* mathematics, you have the well-ordering principle proved in UniMath (from the axiom of choice, of course). 

Regarding your doubt about the interaction, we have that univalence is orthogonal to constructivism. 

In fact, univalence is not *inherently* constructive. It was hard work to find a constructive interpretation of univalence (which happens to rely on cubical sets as in homotopy theory). In particular (even if I lam fond of constructive mathematics, as you know), I work with univalence axiomatically, as a black box, rather than as a construction, in my (formal and informal) mathematical developments. And I do prefer to work with univalence-as-a-specification rather than univalence-as-a-construction.

There is nothing inherently constructive about univalence. There is no a priori interaction between univalence and constructivism. There is only an a posteriori interaction, constructed by some of the constructively minded members of this list. The constructivity of univalence was an open problem for a number of year, and I would say that, even if it is solved via the cubical model, it is far from being fully understood. 

Best,
Martin


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