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0-poset

A 0-poset is a truth value. Compare the concept of 1poset (a poset) and (1)-poset (which is trivial); compare also with (1)-category and 0-groupoid, which mean the same thing for different reasons.

The point of 0-posets is that they complete some patterns in the periodic table of n-categories, in particular the progression of n-posets.

For example, there should be a 0-category of 0-posets; a 0-category is simply a set, and this set is the set of truth values, classically

(1)Pos:={,}.(-1)Pos := \{\bot, \top\} \,.

Actually, we should expect the 0-category of 0-posets to be a 1-poset; this is simply a poset, and indeed truth values do form a poset (where ).

If we equip the category of 0-posets with its monoidal cartesian structure (which is conjunction?, the logical AND operation), then an -category enriched over this should be a 1-poset; and indeed it is (up to equivalence of categories) a poset (although up to isomorphism only, a category enriched over truth values under conjunction is actually a set equipped with a preorder).

See (-1)-category for references on this sort of negative thinking.