[Agda] Parametricity is inconsistent with classical logic

Martin Escardo m.escardo at cs.bham.ac.uk
Wed May 9 12:13:30 CEST 2012


> Martin Escardo's argument is that you will not be able to use bar
> recursion to justify DNS for X≠ℕ, but it does not mean that you
> could never possible justify it.

I was thinking that Kreisel showed that classical choice over X allows
you to interpret the negative translation of comprehension, which is
rather strong.

> It seems that with control operators in logic you can do something
> (ex. http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00647389)

Sounds interesting. Will have a look.

Martin


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