Discussion of Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations
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From: Matt Oliveri <atm...@gmail.com>
To: Homotopy Type Theory <HomotopyT...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [HoTT] A small observation on cumulativity and the failure of initiality
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 13:06:33 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb7a27ff-7c06-4b04-8e4e-a10622fb0936@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOvivQy9HZykAErxd9UkV3LA9WnJchM9cWbat3jdh3cRtLKQ0Q@mail.gmail.com>


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On Friday, October 13, 2017 at 11:50:40 AM UTC-4, Michael Shulman wrote:
>
> In an ideal world, a judgment x:A |- t:B 
> would have at most one derivation, so that we could induct on 
> derivations and still consider the syntactic model to be built out of 
> terms rather than derivations.
>

I think this can practically always be arranged. But it's not clear that it 
actually makes things easier. So I think you might be confused about when 
and why the interpreter would actually look at derivations.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-15 20:06 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 [this message]
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
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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