Univalent Foundations of Mathematics and Paraconsistency

Abstract

Vladimir Voevodsky in his Univalent Foundations Project writes that univalent foundations can be used both for constructive and for non-constructive mathematics. The last is of extreme interest since this project would be understood in a sense that this means an opportunity to extend univalent approach on non-classical mathematics. In general, Univalent Foundations Project allows the exploitation of the structures on homotopy types instead of structures on sets or structures on categories as in case of set-level mathematics or category-level mathematics. Non-classical mathematics should be respectively considered either as non-classical set-level mathematics or as non-classical category-level (toposes-level) mathematics. Since it is possible to directly formalize the world of homotopy types using in particular Martin-Lof type systems then the task is to pass to non-classical type systems e.g. da Costa paraconsistent type systems in order to formalize the world of non-classical homotopy types. Taking into account that the univalent model takes values in the homotopy category associated with a given set theory and to construct this model one usually first chooses a locally cartesian closed model category (in the sense of homotopy theory) then trying to extend this scheme for a case of non-classical set theories (e.g. paraconsistent ones) we need to evaluate respective non-classical homotopy types not in cartesian closed categories but in more suitable ones. In any case it seems that such Non-Classical Univalent Foundations Project should be directly developed according to Logical Pluralism paradigma and and it seems that it is difficult to find counter-argument of logical or mathematical character against such an opportunity except the globality and complexity of a such enterprise.

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The work was done under financial support of Russian Foundation of Humanities in the framework of the project No 13-02-00384 “Axiomatic Thought as the Tool of Scientific Knowledge”.