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- From: pruss@unixg.ubc.ca (Alexander Pruss)
- Subject: Topos not over SET with natural number system?
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- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:31:12 GMT
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- Can there exist a topos not defined over SET with a natural number
- system? If so, what would be an example?
-
- A topos E is defined over SET iff there is a geometric morphism
- gamma:E->SET iff there are arbitrary set-indexed coproducts of 1 in
- the topos. (SET here is the topos of sets, i.e. the category of sets.)
- A topos E has a natural number system iff there is an infinite object A
- of E. (And object A is infinite iff A+1 is isomorphic to A, + being
- coproduct, 1 being a terminal object.)
-
- Alex.
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