Monthly Archives: January 2012
Univalence versus Extraction
From a homotopical perspective, Coq’s built-in sort Prop is like an undecided voter, wooed by both the extensional and the intensional parties. Sometimes it leans one way, sometimes the other, at times flirting with inconsistency.
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Inductive Types in HoTT
With all the excitement about higher inductive types (e.g. here and here), it seems worthwhile to work out the theory of conventional (lower?) inductive types in HoTT. That’s what Nicola Gambino, Kristina Sojakova and I have done, as we report … Continue reading
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