Boarders on Nostr: Type theorists and set theorists both frequently agree with a kind of tacit formalist ...
Type theorists and set theorists both frequently agree with a kind of tacit formalist idea - “if mathematics is not written in our language then it is not mathematics” - category theory did not become mathematics when people decided universes / reflection / classes made it set theoretically respectable, your proof development did not become mathematics when agda finished typechecking
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