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Games and Definability For FPC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

Guy McCusker
Guy McCusker*
Affiliation:
St John's College, Oxford, United KingdomOX1 3JP.E-mail: mccusker@comlab.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

A new games model of the language FPC, a type theory with products, sums, function spaces and recursive types, is described. A definability result is proved, showing that every finite element of the model is the interpretation of some term of the language.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 347 - 362
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1997

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