Negation

Content created by Fredrik Bakke, Jonathan Prieto-Cubides and Egbert Rijke.

Created on 2022-03-05.
Last modified on 2023-06-08.

module foundation-core.negation where
Imports 
open import foundation.universe-levels

open import foundation-core.empty-types

Idea

The Curry-Howard interpretation of negation in type theory is the interpretation of the proposition P ⇒ ⊥ using propositions as types. Thus, the negation of a type A is the type A → empty.

Definition

¬ : {l : Level} → UU l → UU l
¬ A = A → empty

map-neg :
  {l1 l2 : Level} {P : UU l1} {Q : UU l2} →
  (P → Q) → (¬ Q → ¬ P)
map-neg f nq p = nq (f p)

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