15-851 Computation and Deduction
Lecture 6: Higher-Level Judgments

In this lecture we examine how to represent proofs of meta-theorems in the logical framework. The basic difficulty is that mathematical proofs are typically not themselves mathematical objects. In order to solve this difficulty we introduce judgments relating derivations, so-called higher-level judgments. We show how higher-level judgments can be used to capture some of the intuitive contents of proofs and illustrate the techniques with the proof of value soundness for Mini-ML.

Higher-level judgments require another (and final) generalization of the type theory underlying the logical framework to also allow dependent kinds.


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