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and this goes with a new section (oo,1)-topos theory at (infinity,1)-topos
In view of all that’s been done, I guess this page needs some updating.
As remarked at type theory, it is useful to distinguish between the internal type theory of a category and the internal logic which sits on top of that type theory.
Yeah!
Three years later and I come again to the same conclusion as #3.
It’s funny to see how little we know of HoTT eight years ago.
This is a good recent overview: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2017/11/internal_languages_of_higher_c_1.html
This is weird, three more years later from #5, and here we still are.
How about we just remove section 2?
You mean this section?
That looks quite okay to me. Why do you want to remove it?
Do we need to single out one level? As it is, it sounds to me as written from a time when Mike thought to keep these levels separate, but I thought he’d shifted on this to propositions as some types.
He wrote section 2 in 2010, but a couple of years later he’s writing on the blog here:
But I want to argue that propositions-as-some-types, which is the approach chosen by homotopy type theory, is the most natural choice in this setting. The fundamental observation is that the “types with at most one element” which arise in propositions-as-some-types are just the first rung on an infinite ladder: they are the (−1)-truncated types (∞-groupoids), called h-props. Why, then, should they be treated specially, as they are with propositions-are-basic or logic-enriched-type-theory?
But “propositions-as-some-types” just means to regard as propositions exactly the (-1)-truncated types. Which is what the section says.
But I don’t want to get involved in another round of what, admittedly, feels like splitting hairs on trivial matters. So feel free to ignore my comments. But – while I see lots of room for improving exposition in type theory entries – I don’t see why removing that section 2 would be necessary or desireable.
I’m just saying it’s an odd thing to emphasise a logic-enriched type-theoretic approach as the first substantial idea.
But the whole page needs a rewrite in view of the past 10 years.
Yeah. Someone should rewrite it. (-:
(Sorry I’ve been MIA around here for a while… it’s hard to keep up with everything.)
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