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+<strong><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/relation+between+type+theory+and+category+theory">relation type theory/category theory</a></strong></p> <table><thead><tr><th><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/logic">logic</a></th><th><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/set+theory">set theory</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/internal+logic+of+set+theory">internal logic</a> of)</th><th><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/category+theory">category theory</a></th><th><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/type+theory">type theory</a></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/proposition">proposition</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/set">set</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/object">object</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/type">type</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/predicate">predicate</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/family+of+sets">family of sets</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/display+morphism">display morphism</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+type">dependent type</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/proof">proof</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/element">element</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/generalized+element">generalized element</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/term">term</a>/<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/program">program</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/cut+rule">cut rule</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/composition">composition</a> of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/classifying+morphisms">classifying morphisms</a> / <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/pullback">pullback</a> of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/display+maps">display maps</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/substitution">substitution</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/introduction+rule">introduction rule</a> for <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/implication">implication</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/counit">counit</a> for hom-tensor adjunction</td><td style="text-align: left;">lambda</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/elimination+rule">elimination rule</a> for <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/implication">implication</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/unit">unit</a> for hom-tensor adjunction</td><td style="text-align: left;">application</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/cut+elimination">cut elimination</a> for <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/implication">implication</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"></td><td style="text-align: left;">one of the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/zigzag+identities">zigzag identities</a> for hom-tensor adjunction</td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/beta+reduction">beta reduction</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;">identity elimination for <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/implication">implication</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"></td><td style="text-align: left;">the other <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/zigzag+identity">zigzag identity</a> for hom-tensor adjunction</td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/eta+conversion">eta conversion</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/true">true</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/singleton">singleton</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/terminal+object">terminal object</a>/<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/%28-2%29-truncated+object">(-2)-truncated object</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/h-level+0">h-level 0</a>-<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/type">type</a>/<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/unit+type">unit type</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/false">false</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/empty+set">empty set</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/initial+object">initial object</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/empty+type">empty type</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/proposition">proposition</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/truth+value">truth value</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/subsingleton">subsingleton</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/subterminal+object">subterminal object</a>/<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/%28-1%29-truncated+object">(-1)-truncated object</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/h-proposition">h-proposition</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/mere+proposition">mere proposition</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/logical+conjunction">logical conjunction</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/cartesian+product">cartesian product</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/product">product</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/product+type">product type</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/disjunction">disjunction</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/disjoint+union">disjoint union</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/support">support</a> of)</td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/coproduct">coproduct</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/%28-1%29-truncation">(-1)-truncation</a> of)</td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/sum+type">sum type</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/bracket+type">bracket type</a> of)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/implication">implication</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/function+set">function set</a> (into <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/subsingleton">subsingleton</a>)</td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/internal+hom">internal hom</a> (into <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/subterminal+object">subterminal object</a>)</td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/function+type">function type</a> (into <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/h-proposition">h-proposition</a>)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/negation">negation</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/function+set">function set</a> into <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/empty+set">empty set</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/internal+hom">internal hom</a> into <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/initial+object">initial object</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/function+type">function type</a> into <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/empty+type">empty type</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/universal+quantification">universal quantification</a></td><td style="text-align: left;">indexed <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/cartesian+product">cartesian product</a> (of family of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/subsingletons">subsingletons</a>)</td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+product">dependent product</a> (of family of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/subterminal+objects">subterminal objects</a>)</td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+product+type">dependent product type</a> (of family of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/h-propositions">h-propositions</a>)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/existential+quantification">existential quantification</a></td><td style="text-align: left;">indexed <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/disjoint+union">disjoint union</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/support">support</a> of)</td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+sum">dependent sum</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/%28-1%29-truncation">(-1)-truncation</a> of)</td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+sum+type">dependent sum type</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/bracket+type">bracket type</a> of)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/logical+equivalence">logical equivalence</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/bijection+set">bijection set</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/object+of+isomorphisms">object of isomorphisms</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/equivalence+type">equivalence type</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/support+set">support set</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/support+object">support object</a>/<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/%28-1%29-truncation">(-1)-truncation</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/propositional+truncation">propositional truncation</a>/<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/bracket+type">bracket type</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"></td><td style="text-align: left;"></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/n-image">n-image</a> of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/morphism">morphism</a> into <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/terminal+object">terminal object</a>/<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/n-truncation">n-truncation</a></td><td style="text-align: left;"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/n-truncation+modality">n-truncation 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class='maruku_toc'> <ul> <li><a href='#Idea'>Idea</a></li> <li><a href='#Definition'>Definition</a></li> <li><a href='#internal_universal_quantifier_in_set_theory'>Internal universal quantifier in set theory</a></li> <li><a href='#InTermOfAdjunctions'>In topos theory / in terms of adjunctions</a></li> <li><a href='#in_dependent_type_theory'>In dependent type theory</a></li> <li><a href='#examples'>Examples</a></li> <li><a href='#related_concepts'>Related concepts</a></li> <li><a href='#references'>References</a></li> </ul> </div> <h2 id="Idea">Idea</h2> <p>In <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/first-order+logic">first-order logic</a>, the <em>universal quantifier</em> “<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>∀</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\forall</annotation></semantics></math>” is the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/quantifier">quantifier</a> used to express — given a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/predicate">predicate</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">P</annotation></semantics></math> with a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/free+variable">free variable</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>t</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">t</annotation></semantics></math> of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/type">type</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T</annotation></semantics></math> — the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/proposition">proposition</a> denoted</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><munder><mo>∀</mo><mrow><mi>t</mi><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>T</mi></mrow></munder><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thinmathspace"></mspace><mo>,</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex"> \underset{ t \colon T } {\forall} P(t) \,, </annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>which is meant to be <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/true">true</a> if and only if <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">P(t)</annotation></semantics></math> holds true for ALL possible <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/elements">elements</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>t</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">t</annotation></semantics></math> of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T</annotation></semantics></math> (all <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/terms">terms</a> of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/type">type</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T</annotation></semantics></math>) — whence the notation “A” (even if upside-down) for this quantifier.</p> <p>This notion is “dual” (in fact <em><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/adjoint+functor">adjoint</a></em>, see <a href="#InTermOfAdjunctions">below</a>) to the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/existential+quantifier">existential quantifier</a> “<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>∃</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\exists</annotation></semantics></math>” which asserts that <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">P(t)</annotation></semantics></math> holds true for <em>some</em> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>t</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">t</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <p>But beware that is quite possible that <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">P(t)</annotation></semantics></math> may be provable (in a given <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/context">context</a>) for every <em><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/term">term</a></em> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>t</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">t</annotation></semantics></math> of type <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T</annotation></semantics></math> that can actually be constructed in that context, and yet <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><munder><mo>∀</mo><mrow><mi>t</mi><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>T</mi></mrow></munder><mi>ϕ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex"> \underset{ t \colon T } {\forall} \phi(t) </annotation></semantics></math> cannot be proved: The proper internal definition of universal quantification is as a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/right+adjoint">right adjoint</a> to <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/context+extension">context extension</a> as brought out by the definition <a class="maruku-eqref" href="#eq:FirstDefinition">(1)</a> below and expanded on <a href="#InTermOfAdjunctions">further below</a>.</p> <h2 id="Definition">Definition</h2> <p>We work in a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/logic">logic</a> in which we are concerned with which <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/propositions">propositions</a> entail which other propositions (in a given <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/context">context</a>); in particular, two propositions which entail each other are considered <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/logical+equivalence">logically equivalent</a>, denoted by “<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>⇔</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Leftrightarrow</annotation></semantics></math>”.</p> <p>Let</p> <ul> <li> <p><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Gamma</annotation></semantics></math> be an arbitrary <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/context">context</a>,</p> </li> <li> <p><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T</annotation></semantics></math> a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+type">dependent type</a> in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Gamma</annotation></semantics></math>,</p> </li> </ul> <p>so that</p> <ul> <li><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Δ</mi><mo>≔</mo><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Delta \coloneqq \Gamma, T</annotation></semantics></math> is the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/context+extension">context extension</a> of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Gamma</annotation></semantics></math> by a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/free+variable">free variable</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>t</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">t</annotation></semantics></math> of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/type">type</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> </ul> <p>We assume that we have a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/weakening+rule">weakening rule</a> that allows us to interpret any proposition <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">Q</annotation></semantics></math> in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Gamma</annotation></semantics></math> as</p> <ul> <li><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>T</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T^\ast Q</annotation></semantics></math> being a proposition in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Δ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Delta</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> </ul> <p>Then for</p> <ul> <li><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">P</annotation></semantics></math> a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/proposition">proposition</a> in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Δ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Delta</annotation></semantics></math>, which we think of as a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/predicate">predicate</a> in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Gamma</annotation></semantics></math> with the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/free+variable">free variable</a> of type <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T</annotation></semantics></math>,</li> </ul> <p>its <strong>universal quantification</strong> is any proposition <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><munder><mo>∀</mo><mi>T</mi></munder><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\underset{T}{\forall} P</annotation></semantics></math> in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Gamma</annotation></semantics></math> such that, <em>given any proposition <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">Q</annotation></semantics></math> in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Gamma</annotation></semantics></math></em>, we have:</p> <div class="maruku-equation" id="eq:FirstDefinition"><span class="maruku-eq-number">(1)</span><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><msub><mo>⊢</mo> <mi>Γ</mi></msub><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><munder><mo>∀</mo><mi>T</mi></munder><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi>P</mi><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mo>⇔</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><msup><mi>T</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup><mi>Q</mi><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><msub><mo>⊢</mo> <mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>T</mi></mrow></msub><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi>P</mi><mspace width="thinmathspace"></mspace><mo>.</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex"> Q \;\vdash_{\Gamma}\; \underset{ T }{\forall} \; P \;\;\;\;\;\;\; \Leftrightarrow \;\;\;\;\;\;\; T^\ast Q \;\vdash_{\Gamma, T}\; P \,. </annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>It is then a theorem that universal quantification of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">P</annotation></semantics></math>, if it exists, is unique. The existence is typically asserted as an <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/axiom">axiom</a> in a particular logic, but this may be also be deduced from other principles (as in the topos-theoretic discussion <a href="#InTermOfAdjunctions">below</a>).</p> <p>Often one makes the appearance of the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/free+variable">free variable</a> in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">P</annotation></semantics></math> explicit by thinking of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">P</annotation></semantics></math> as a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/propositional+function">propositional function</a> and writing <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">P(t)</annotation></semantics></math> instead. Then the rule appears as follows:</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><msub><mo>⊢</mo> <mi>Γ</mi></msub><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><munder><mo>∀</mo><mrow><mi>t</mi><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>T</mi></mrow></munder><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mo>⇔</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><msup><mi>T</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup><mi>Q</mi><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><msub><mo>⊢</mo> <mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>t</mi><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>T</mi></mrow></msub><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thinmathspace"></mspace><mo>.</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex"> Q \;\vdash_{\Gamma}\; \underset{ t \colon T }{\forall} P(t) \;\;\;\;\;\; \Leftrightarrow \;\;\;\;\;\; T^\ast Q \;\vdash_{\Gamma, t \colon T}\; P(t) \,. </annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>In terms of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/semantics">semantics</a> (as for example topos-theoretic semantics; see <a href="#InTermOfAdjunctions">below</a>), the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/context+extension">context extension</a> from <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">Q</annotation></semantics></math> to <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>T</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T^\ast Q</annotation></semantics></math> corresponds to <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/pullback">pulling back</a> along a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/product">product</a> projection <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>σ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>T</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>×</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\sigma(T) \times A \to A</annotation></semantics></math>, where <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>σ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>T</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\sigma(T)</annotation></semantics></math> is the interpretation of the type <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T</annotation></semantics></math>, and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">A</annotation></semantics></math> is the interpretation of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Gamma</annotation></semantics></math>. In other words, if a statement <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">Q</annotation></semantics></math> read in context <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Gamma</annotation></semantics></math> is interpreted as a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/subobject">subobject</a> of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">A</annotation></semantics></math>, then the statement <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">Q</annotation></semantics></math> read in context <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Δ</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>t</mi><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Delta = \Gamma, t \colon T</annotation></semantics></math> is interpreted by pulling back along the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/projection">projection</a>, obtaining a subobject of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>σ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>T</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>×</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\sigma(T) \times A</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <p>As observed by <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Lawvere">Lawvere</a>, we are not particularly constrained to product projections; we can pull back along any map <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>f</mi><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>B</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f \colon B \to A</annotation></semantics></math>. (Often we have a class of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/display+maps">display maps</a> and require <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>f</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f</annotation></semantics></math> to be one of these.) Alternatively, any pullback functor <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>f</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>Set</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>Set</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>B</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f^\ast\colon Set/A \to Set/B</annotation></semantics></math> can be construed as pulling back along an object <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>X</mi><mo>=</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>f</mi><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>B</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>A</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X = (f \colon B \to A)</annotation></semantics></math>, i.e., along the unique map <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>!</mo><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>X</mi><mo>→</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">!\colon X \to 1</annotation></semantics></math> corresponding to an object <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X</annotation></semantics></math> in the slice <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Set</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">Set/A</annotation></semantics></math>, since we have the identification <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>Set</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>B</mi><mo>≃</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>Set</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>A</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>X</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">Set/B \simeq (Set/A)/X</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <p>In <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/natural+deduction">natural deduction</a> the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/inference+rules">inference rules</a> for the universal quantifier are given as</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">prop</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mo>∀</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>.</mo><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">prop</mi></mrow></mfrac><mspace width="2em"></mspace><mfrac><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">true</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mo>∀</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>.</mo><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">true</mi></mrow></mfrac><mspace width="2em"></mspace><mfrac><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mo>∀</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>.</mo><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">true</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">true</mi></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\Gamma, x:A \vdash P(x) \; \mathrm{prop}}{\Gamma \vdash \forall x:A.P(x) \; \mathrm{prop}} \qquad \frac{\Gamma, x:A \vdash P(x) \; \mathrm{true}}{\Gamma \vdash \forall x:A.P(x) \; \mathrm{true}} \qquad \frac{\Gamma \vdash \forall x:A.P(x) \; \mathrm{true}}{\Gamma, x:A \vdash P(x) \; \mathrm{true}}</annotation></semantics></math></div> <h2 id="internal_universal_quantifier_in_set_theory">Internal universal quantifier in set theory</h2> <p>In <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/set+theory">set theory</a>, recall that a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/predicate">predicate</a> on a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/set">set</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">A</annotation></semantics></math> in the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/internal+logic+of+set+theory">internal logic of set theory</a> is represented by the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/preimage">preimage</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>i</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">i^*(a)</annotation></semantics></math> of an <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/injection">injection</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>i</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>B</mi><mo>↪</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">i:B \hookrightarrow A</annotation></semantics></math>. Because <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>i</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">i</annotation></semantics></math> is an <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/injection">injection</a>, each preimage <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>i</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">i^*(a)</annotation></semantics></math> is a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/subsingleton">subsingleton</a> for all <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>a</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">a \in A</annotation></semantics></math>, which represents the internal <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/propositions">propositions</a> of the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/set+theory">set theory</a>. The <strong>internal universal quantifier</strong> is represented by the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Cartesian+product">Cartesian product</a> of the family of sets <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><msup><mi>i</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><msub><mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow><mi>a</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">(i^*(a))_{a \in A}</annotation></semantics></math>:</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>∀</mo><mi>a</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>.</mo><msup><mi>i</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>≔</mo><munder><mo lspace="thinmathspace" rspace="thinmathspace">∏</mo> <mrow><mi>a</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow></munder><msup><mi>i</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\forall a \in A.i^*(a) \coloneqq \prod_{a \in A} i^*(a)</annotation></semantics></math></div> <h2 id="InTermOfAdjunctions">In topos theory / in terms of adjunctions</h2> <p>In terms of the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/internal+logic">internal logic</a> in some ambient <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/topos">topos</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>ℰ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{E}</annotation></semantics></math>,</p> <ul> <li> <p>a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/type">type</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X</annotation></semantics></math> is given by an <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/object">object</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>X</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>ℰ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X \in \mathcal{E}</annotation></semantics></math>,</p> </li> <li> <p>the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/predicate">predicate</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>ϕ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phi</annotation></semantics></math> is a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/%28-1%29-truncated">(-1)-truncated</a> object of the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/over-topos">over-topos</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>ℰ</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>X</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{E}/X</annotation></semantics></math>;</p> </li> <li> <p>a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/truth+value">truth value</a> is a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/%28-1%29-truncated">(-1)-truncated</a> object of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>ℰ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{E}</annotation></semantics></math> itself.</p> </li> </ul> <p>Universal quantification is essentially the restriction of the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/direct+image">direct image</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/right+adjoint">right adjoint</a> of a canonical <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/%C3%A9tale+geometric+morphism">étale geometric morphism</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>X</mi> <mo>*</mo></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X_\ast</annotation></semantics></math>,</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>ℰ</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>X</mi><mover><mover><munder><mo>→</mo><mrow><msub><mi>X</mi> <mo>*</mo></msub></mrow></munder><mover><mo>←</mo><mrow><msup><mi>X</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup></mrow></mover></mover><mover><mo>→</mo><mrow><msub><mi>X</mi> <mo>!</mo></msub></mrow></mover></mover><mi>ℰ</mi><mspace width="thinmathspace"></mspace><mo>,</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex"> \mathcal{E}/X \stackrel{\overset{X_!}{\to}}{\stackrel{\overset{X^*}{\leftarrow}}{\underset{X_*}{\to}}} \mathcal{E} \,, </annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>where <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>X</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X^\ast</annotation></semantics></math> is the functor that takes an object <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">A</annotation></semantics></math> to the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/product">product</a> projection <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>π</mi><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>X</mi><mo>×</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>X</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\pi \colon X \times A \to X</annotation></semantics></math>, where <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>X</mi> <mo>!</mo></msub><mo>=</mo><msub><mi>Σ</mi> <mi>X</mi></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X_! = \Sigma_X</annotation></semantics></math> is the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+sum">dependent sum</a> (i.e., forgetful functor taking <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>f</mi><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>X</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f \colon A \to X</annotation></semantics></math> to <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">A</annotation></semantics></math>) that is left adjoint to <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>X</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X^\ast</annotation></semantics></math>, and where <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>X</mi> <mo>*</mo></msub><mo>=</mo><msub><mi>Π</mi> <mi>X</mi></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X_\ast = \Pi_X</annotation></semantics></math> is the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+product">dependent product</a> operation that is right adjoint to <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>X</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X^\ast</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <p>The dependent product operation restricts to <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/propositions">propositions</a> by pre- and postcomposition with the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/truncated">truncation</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/adjunctions">adjunctions</a></p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>τ</mi> <mrow><mo>≤</mo><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mi>ℰ</mi><mover><munder><mo>↪</mo><mrow></mrow></munder><mover><mo>←</mo><mrow><msub><mi>τ</mi> <mrow><mo>≤</mo><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></mover></mover><mi>ℰ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex"> \tau_{\leq -1} \mathcal{E} \stackrel{\overset{\tau_{\leq -1}}{\leftarrow}}{\underset{}{\hookrightarrow}} \mathcal{E} </annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>to give universal quantification over the domain (or context) <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X</annotation></semantics></math>:</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mrow><mtable><mtr><mtd><mi>ℰ</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>X</mi></mtd> <mtd><mover><mover><munder><mo>→</mo><mrow><msub><mi>X</mi> <mo>*</mo></msub></mrow></munder><mover><mo>←</mo><mrow><msup><mi>X</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup></mrow></mover></mover><mover><mo>→</mo><mrow><msub><mi>X</mi> <mo>!</mo></msub></mrow></mover></mover></mtd> <mtd><mi>ℰ</mi></mtd></mtr> <mtr><mtd><msup><mrow></mrow> <mpadded width="0" lspace="-100%width"><mrow><msub><mi>τ</mi> <mrow><msub><mo>≤</mo> <mrow><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></msub></mrow></mpadded></msup><mo stretchy="false">↓</mo><mo stretchy="false">↑</mo></mtd> <mtd></mtd> <mtd><msup><mrow></mrow> <mpadded width="0" lspace="-100%width"><mrow><msub><mi>τ</mi> <mrow><msub><mo>≤</mo> <mrow><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></msub></mrow></mpadded></msup><mo stretchy="false">↓</mo><mo stretchy="false">↑</mo></mtd></mtr> <mtr><mtd><msub><mi>τ</mi> <mrow><msub><mo>≤</mo> <mrow><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></msub><mi>ℰ</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>X</mi></mtd> <mtd><mover><mover><munder><mo>→</mo><mrow><msub><mo>∀</mo> <mi>X</mi></msub></mrow></munder><mover><mo>←</mo><mrow></mrow></mover></mover><mover><mo>→</mo><mrow><msub><mo>∃</mo> <mi>X</mi></msub></mrow></mover></mover></mtd> <mtd><msub><mi>τ</mi> <mrow><msub><mo>≤</mo> <mrow><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></msub><mi>ℰ</mi></mtd></mtr></mtable></mrow><mspace width="thinmathspace"></mspace><mo>.</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex"> \array{ \mathcal{E}/X & \stackrel{\overset{X_!}{\to}}{\stackrel{\overset{X^*}{\leftarrow}}{\underset{X_*}{\to}}} & \mathcal{E} \\ {}^\mathllap{\tau_{\leq_{-1}}}\downarrow \uparrow && {}^\mathllap{\tau_{\leq_{-1}}}\downarrow \uparrow \\ \tau_{\leq_{-1}} \mathcal{E}/X & \stackrel{\overset{\exists_X}{\to}}{\stackrel{\overset{}{\leftarrow}}{\underset{\forall_X}{\to}}} & \tau_{\leq_{-1}}\mathcal{E} } \,. </annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>Dually, the extra <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/left+adjoint">left adjoint</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msub><mo>∃</mo> <mi>X</mi></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\exists_X</annotation></semantics></math>, obtained from the dependent sum <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>X</mi> <mo>!</mo></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X_!</annotation></semantics></math> by pre- and post-composition with the truncation adjunctions, expresses the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/existential+quantifier">existential quantifier</a>. (The situation with the universal quantifier is somewhat simpler than for the existential one, since the dependent product automatically preserves <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">−</mo><mn>1</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">(-1)</annotation></semantics></math>-truncated objects (= subterminal objects), whereas the dependent sum does not.)</p> <p>The same makes sense, verbatim, also in the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/%28%E2%88%9E%2C1%29-logic">(∞,1)-logic</a> of any <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/%28%E2%88%9E%2C1%29-topos">(∞,1)-topos</a>.</p> <p>This interpretation of universal quantification as the right adjoint to context extension is also used in the notion of <em><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/hyperdoctrine">hyperdoctrine</a></em>.</p> <h2 id="in_dependent_type_theory">In dependent type theory</h2> <p>In <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+type+theory">dependent type theory</a>, the universal quantifier is the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/propositional+truncation">propositional truncation</a> of the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+product+type">dependent product type</a> of a family of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/h-propositions">h-propositions</a>:</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>∀</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>.</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>≔</mo><mrow><mo>[</mo><munder><mo lspace="thinmathspace" rspace="thinmathspace">∏</mo> <mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow></munder><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>]</mo></mrow></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\forall (x:A).B(x) \coloneqq \left[\prod_{x:A} B(x)\right]</annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>The axiom of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/function+extensionality">function extensionality</a> or <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/weak+function+extensionality">weak function extensionality</a> implies that the dependent product type of a family of h-propositions is always an h-proposition.</p> <p>One doesn’t need all <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+product+types">dependent product types</a> to define universal quantifiers. The <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/isProp">isProp</a> types are definable without all dependent product types, by use of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/center+of+contraction">center of contraction</a>, which are also definable without all dependent product types.</p> <p>Formation rules for the universal quantifier:</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>A</mi><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>p</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>:</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">isProp</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mo>∀</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>.</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\Gamma \vdash A \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash B(x) \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash p(x):\mathrm{isProp}(B(x))}{\Gamma \vdash \forall (x:A).B(x) \; \mathrm{type}}</annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>Introduction rules for the universal quantifier:</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>A</mi><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>p</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>:</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">isProp</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>b</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>:</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>.</mo><mi>b</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>:</mo><mo>∀</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>.</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\Gamma \vdash A \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash B(x) \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash p(x):\mathrm{isProp}(B(x)) \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash b(x):B(x)}{\Gamma \vdash \lambda(x:A).b(x):\forall (x:A).B(x)}</annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>Elimination rules for the universal quantifier:</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>A</mi><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>p</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>:</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">isProp</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>f</mi><mo>:</mo><mo>∀</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>.</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>a</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>:</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">[</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">]</mo></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\Gamma \vdash A \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash B(x) \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash p(x):\mathrm{isProp}(B(x)) \quad \Gamma \vdash f:\forall (x:A).B(x) \quad \Gamma \vdash a:A}{\Gamma \vdash f(a):B[a/x]}</annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>Computation rules for the universal quantifier:</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>A</mi><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>p</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>:</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">isProp</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>b</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>:</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>a</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><msub><mi>β</mi> <mo>∀</mo></msub><mo>:</mo><mi>λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>.</mo><mi>b</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><msub><mo>=</mo> <mrow><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">[</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">]</mo></mrow></msub><mi>b</mi><mo stretchy="false">[</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">]</mo></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\Gamma \vdash A \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash B(x) \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash p(x):\mathrm{isProp}(B(x)) \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash b(x):B(x) \quad \Gamma \vdash a:A}{\Gamma \vdash \beta_\forall:\lambda(x:A).b(x)(a) =_{B[a/x]} b[a/x]}</annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>Uniqueness rules for the universal quantifier:</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>A</mi><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>p</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>:</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">isProp</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>f</mi><mo>:</mo><mo>∀</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>.</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><msub><mi>η</mi> <mo>∀</mo></msub><mo>:</mo><mi>f</mi><msub><mo>=</mo> <mrow><mo>∀</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>.</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></msub><mi>λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>.</mo><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\Gamma \vdash A \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash B(x) \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash p(x):\mathrm{isProp}(B(x)) \quad \Gamma \vdash f:\forall (x:A).B(x)}{\Gamma \vdash \eta_\forall:f =_{\forall (x:A).B(x)} \lambda(x).f(x)}</annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>Closure of universal quantifiers under h-propositions rule:</p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>A</mi><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mi mathvariant="normal">type</mi><mspace width="1em"></mspace><mi>Γ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi>p</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>:</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">isProp</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><mrow><mi>Γ</mi><mo>⊢</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">weakfunext</mi><mo>:</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">isProp</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mo>∀</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>A</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>.</mo><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\Gamma \vdash A \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash B(x) \; \mathrm{type} \quad \Gamma, x:A \vdash p(x):\mathrm{isProp}(B(x))}{\Gamma \vdash \mathrm{weakfunext}:\mathrm{isProp}(\forall (x:A).B(x))}</annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>This means that one could define the type-theoretic internal logic of a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Heyting+category">Heyting category</a> or <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Boolean+category">Boolean category</a> which are not <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/locally+cartesian+closed">locally cartesian closed</a>, for <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/strongly+predicative+mathematics">strongly predicative mathematics</a>.</p> <h2 id="examples">Examples</h2> <p>Let <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>ℰ</mi><mo>=</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{E} = </annotation></semantics></math> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Set">Set</a>, let <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>X</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>ℕ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X = \mathbb{N}</annotation></semantics></math> be the set of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/natural+number">natural number</a>s and let <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>ϕ</mi><mo>≔</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>ℕ</mi><mo>↪</mo><mi>ℕ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phi \coloneqq 2\mathbb{N} \hookrightarrow \mathbb{N}</annotation></semantics></math> be the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/subset">subset</a> of even natural numbers. This expresses the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/proposition">proposition</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>ϕ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>≔</mo><mi>IsEven</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phi(x) \coloneqq IsEven(x)</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <p>Then the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+product">dependent product</a></p> <div class="maruku-equation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>ϕ</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>Set</mi><mo stretchy="false">/</mo><mi>ℕ</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>↦</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><munder><mo lspace="thinmathspace" rspace="thinmathspace">∏</mo> <mrow><mi>x</mi><mo lspace="verythinmathspace">:</mo><mi>X</mi></mrow></munder><mi>ϕ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>∈</mo><mi>Set</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex"> (\phi \in Set/{\mathbb{N}}) \mapsto (\prod_{x\colon X} \phi(x) \in Set) </annotation></semantics></math></div> <p>is the set of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/section">section</a>s of the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/bundle">bundle</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mi>ℕ</mi><mo>↪</mo><mi>ℕ</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">2 \mathbb{N} \hookrightarrow \mathbb{N}</annotation></semantics></math>. But since over odd numbers the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/fiber">fiber</a> of this bundle is the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/empty+set">empty set</a>, there is no possible value of such a section and hence the set of sections is itself the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/empty+set">empty set</a>, so the statement “all natural numbers are even” is, indeed, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/false">false</a>.</p> <h2 id="related_concepts">Related concepts</h2> <ul> <li> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/necessity">necessity</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/example">example</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/existential+quantifier">existential quantifier</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/generalized+quantifier">generalized quantifier</a></p> </li> </ul> <div> <table><thead><tr><th><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">−</mo></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{-}</annotation></semantics></math>symbol<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">−</mo></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{-}</annotation></semantics></math></th><th><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">−</mo></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{-}</annotation></semantics></math>in <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/logic">logic</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">−</mo></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{-}</annotation></semantics></math></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>∈</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\in</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/element">element</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/relation">relation</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mspace width="thinmathspace"></mspace><mo>:</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\,:</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/type">typing</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/relation">relation</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>=</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">=</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/equality">equality</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>⊢</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\vdash</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/entailment">entailment</a> / <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/sequent">sequent</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>⊤</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\top</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/true">true</a> / <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/top">top</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>⊥</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\bot</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/false">false</a> / <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/bottom">bottom</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>⇒</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Rightarrow</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/implication">implication</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>⇔</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Leftrightarrow</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/logical+equivalence">logical equivalence</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>¬</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\not</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/negation">negation</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>≠</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\neq</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/negation">negation</a> of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/equality">equality</a> / <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/apartness">apartness</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>∉</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\notin</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/negation">negation</a> of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/element">element</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/relation">relation</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>¬</mo><mo>¬</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\not \not</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/double+negation">negation of negation</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>∃</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\exists</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/existential+quantification">existential quantification</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>∀</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\forall</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/universal+quantification">universal quantification</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>∧</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\wedge</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/logical+conjunction">logical conjunction</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>∨</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\vee</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/logical+disjunction">logical disjunction</a></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"></td><td style="text-align: left;"></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><strong>symbol</strong></td><td style="text-align: left;"><strong>in <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/type+theory">type theory</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/propositions+as+types">propositions as types</a>)</strong></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>→</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\to</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/function+type">function type</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/implication">implication</a>)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>×</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\times</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/product+type">product type</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/conjunction">conjunction</a>)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo lspace="verythinmathspace" rspace="0em">+</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">+</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/sum+type">sum type</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/disjunction">disjunction</a>)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">0</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/empty+type">empty type</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/false">false</a>)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">1</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/unit+type">unit type</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/true">true</a>)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>=</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">=</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/identity+type">identity type</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/equality">equality</a>)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>≃</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\simeq</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/equivalence+of+types">equivalence of types</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/logical+equivalence">logical equivalence</a>)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo lspace="thinmathspace" rspace="thinmathspace">∑</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\sum</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+sum+type">dependent sum type</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/existential+quantifier">existential quantifier</a>)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo lspace="thinmathspace" rspace="thinmathspace">∏</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\prod</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/dependent+product+type">dependent product type</a> (<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/universal+quantifier">universal quantifier</a>)</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"></td><td style="text-align: left;"></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><strong>symbol</strong></td><td style="text-align: left;"><strong>in <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/linear+logic">linear logic</a></strong></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>⊸</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\multimap</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/linear+implication">linear implication</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>⊗</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\otimes</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/multiplicative+conjunction">multiplicative conjunction</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>⊕</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\oplus</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/additive+disjunction">additive disjunction</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>&</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\&</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/additive+conjunction">additive conjunction</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo>⅋</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\invamp</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/multiplicative+disjunction">multiplicative disjunction</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mo>!</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\;!</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/exponential+conjunction">exponential conjunction</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mspace width="thickmathspace"></mspace><mo>?</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\;?</annotation></semantics></math><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td><td style="text-align: left;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/exponential+disjunction">exponential disjunction</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mphantom><mi>A</mi></mphantom></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\phantom{A}</annotation></semantics></math></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <p>The observation that <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/substitution">substitution</a> forms an <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/adjoint+pair">adjoint pair</a>/<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/adjoint+triple">adjoint triple</a> with the existential/universal quantifiers is due to</p> <ul> <li id="Lawvere69"> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/William+Lawvere">William Lawvere</a>, <em>Adjointness in Foundations</em>, (<a href="http://www.emis.de/journals/TAC/reprints/articles/16/tr16abs.html">tac:16</a>), Dialectica 23 (1969), 281-296</p> </li> <li> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/William+Lawvere">William Lawvere</a>, <em>Quantifiers and sheaves</em>, Actes, Congrès intern, math., 1970. Tome 1, p. 329 à 334 (<a href="http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1970.1/Main/icm1970.1.0329.0334.ocr.pdf">pdf</a>)</p> </li> </ul> <p>and further developed in</p> <ul> <li><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/William+Lawvere">William Lawvere</a>, <em>Equality in hyperdoctrines and</em> <p>comprehension schema as an adjoint functor_, Proceedings of the AMS Symposium on Pure Mathematics XVII (1970), 1-14.</p> </li> </ul> </body></html> </div> <div class="revisedby"> <p> Last revised on November 13, 2023 at 13:48:39. 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