In the search of a naive type theory

  • Authors:
  • Agnieszka Kozubek;Paweł Urzyczyn

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland;Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland

  • Venue:
  • TYPES'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Types for proofs and programs
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper consists of two parts. In the first part we argue that an appropriate "naive type theory" should replace naive set theory (as understood in Halmos' book) in everyday mathematical practice, especially in teaching mathematics to Computer Science students. In the second part we make the first step towards developing such a theory: we discuss a certain pure type system with powerset types. While the system only covers very initial aspects of the intended theory, we believe it can be used as an initial formalism to be further developed. The consistency of this basic system is established by proving strong normalization.