A computational interpretation of forcing in type theory
Book chapter, 2012

In a previous work, we showed the uniform continuity of definable functionals in intuitionistic type theory as an application of forcing with dependent types. The argument was constructive, and so contains implicitly an algorithm which computes a witness that a given functional is uniformly continuous. We present here such an algorithm, which provides a possible computational interpretation of forcing.

Author

Thierry Coquand

University of Gothenburg

G. Jaber

Ecole des Mines de Nantes

Epistemology versus Ontology: Essays on the Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics in Honour of per Martin-Löf

203-213

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

DOI

10.1007/978-94-007-4435-6_10

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