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Toposophy vs Set theoretical multiverse philosophy
Johnstones classic topos theory book talks at some length in its introduction about how category theory/topos theory suggest that we view the 'universe' in which mathematics takes place as consisting ...
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Using the multiverse approach to decide the law of the exluded middle?
Recently, in response to deciding the Continuum Hypothesis $CH$, Hamkins and Gitman have proposed consider a multiverse of set-theoretic universes, some in which $CH$ is true, some in which $\neg CH$ ...
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Maps between forcing posets
We all know that forcing can be seen (if you like things that way) as a category of sheaves over the poset of forcing conditions equipped with the double negation Grothendieck topology. As such it is ...