nLab Makkai duality

Idea

Makkai duality is a kind of syntax-semantics duality, due to Michael Makkai, relating pretoposes (categories having to do with the syntax of first-order logic) and ultracategories (which are a way of capturing the semantics of first-order logic). This leads to a proof of conceptual completeness for first-order logic.

References

Some more general variants are achieved in

  • Marek W. Zawadowski, Descent and duality, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 71, n.2 (1995), 131–188

  • Henrik Forssell, First-order logical duality, Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon U. 2008, pdf

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