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### Is there a typed lambda calculus which is consistent and Turing complete?

Alright I'll give a crack at it: In general for a given type system $T$, the following is true: If all well-type terms in the calculus $T$ are normalizing, then $T$ is consistent when viewed as a ...
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### Why is the Curry-Howard isomorphism?

I suspect someone is going to come along with a deep category-theoretic reason for the connection, but in the meantime, here is my insight. Both logic and programming with functions are built around ...
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### Is there a typed lambda calculus which is consistent and Turing complete?

Here is an answer to a variant of @cody's precisification of my question. There is a consistent LPTS which is Turing complete in roughly @cody's sense, if we allow the introduction of additional ...

### Type-theoretic interpretation of Skolemization

Skolemization corresponds to the so-called type theoretic axiom of choice, which is briefly discussed in section 1.6 of the HoTT book. This provides an equivalence along which we can swap $\Sigma$ ...
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### How do continuations represent negations (under the Curry–Howard correspondence)?

When one associates negation with continuations, it is probably not ideal to think of it in terms of an 'empty' type. Continuation passing can be done with respect to any result type, and if that type ...
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### Motivation for Dependent Type

Actually, the motivation for introducing dependent types goes in the opposite direction! Curry had noticed that there was a direct correspondence between typed terms in the $SK$ calculus and proofs in ...
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### Why is the Curry-Howard isomorphism?

Someone wanted a deep category-theoretic insight? A Heyting algebra is a cartesian-closed category.
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### What's the logical counterpart to jumps with arguments on CPS terms?

Such a logic of continuations (or a syntax of continuation that arose from logical considerations) would be Laurent's “polarised linear logic” (LLP): Olivier Laurent, Étude de la polarisation en ...
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### Languages that lack contraction, weakening or exchange

As other commenters have mentioned what you are actually asking for is a language for planar string diagrams, aka monoidal categories. But let me address your question purely from the point of view ...
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### Languages that lack contraction, weakening or exchange

If you remove all those rules and add something like If $A \vdash B$ and $A' \vdash B'$ then $A, A' \vdash B, B'$ you get a logic essentially for monoidal categories (it's basically string diagrams ...
For me, what is going on is reasonably standard: You have $c$ with free variables $(x_i : \tau_i)_i$, and you replace it with $c[t_i/x_i]$ with the $(t_i)_i$ at types $(\tau_i)_i$; this is a standard ...