natural deduction metalanguage, practical foundations
type theory (dependent, intensional, observational type theory, homotopy type theory)
computational trinitarianism =
propositions as types +programs as proofs +relation type theory/category theory
In dependent type theory, context extension introduces new free variables into the context.
If is a type in a context , then the extension of by (a free variable of) the type is the context denoted
(where is a new variable).
(We have said ‘the’ extension of by using the generalised the; but it may literally be unique using certain conventions for handling alpha equivalence.)
The categorical semantics of context extension is the inverse image of the base change geometric morphism (or its analog for hyperdoctrines) along the projection morphism in the slice
Generally speaking, a morphism in the category of contexts (an interpretation of in ) is a display morphism iff there is an isomorphism where is an extension of . (This might not actually be true in all type theories, or maybe it should be taken as the definition of ‘display morphism’; I'm not sure.)
Notions of pullback:
pullback, fiber product (limit over a cospan)
lax pullback, comma object (lax limit over a cospan)
(∞,1)-pullback, homotopy pullback, ((∞,1)-limit over a cospan)
The observation that context extension forms an adjoint pair/adjoint triple with quantifiers is due to
and further developed in
comprehension schema as an adjoint functor_, Proceedings of the AMS Symposium on Pure Mathematics XVII (1970), 1-14.
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