The empty type is the type with nothing in it. Or put differently, the type with no term constructors. This means we cannot make a term of the empty type.
The empty type is useful in logic since if a term can be constructed then you have run into a contradiction.
A proposition may be logically negated by writing , since constructing such a term would mean cannot be true.
The empty type plays a similar role to the empty-set in set-theory. In fact in HoTT the empty set is the empty type.
The empty type exists:
TODO: Induction principle
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