[FOM] New umbrella?

Paul Levy P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk
Sun Nov 2 13:07:56 EST 2014


On 2 Nov 2014, at 17:05, fom-request at cs.nyu.edu wrote:
> Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 13:26:21 +0100
> From: Bas Spitters <b.a.w.spitters at gmail.com>
> To: Foundations of Mathematics <fom at cs.nyu.edu>
> Cc: Freek Wiedijk <freek at cs.ru.nl>
> Subject: Re: [FOM] New umbrella? (Freek Wiedijk)
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>  HoTT (plus classical logic?) may be the most
> pleasant framework to actually formalize results like these in

I think that's impossible.  Surely one cannot embed ZFC + universes  
into HoTT, because HoTT refutes choice over a universe.

Paul


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