We give a new semantics for Nuprl's constructive type theory that justifies a useful embedding of the logic of the HOL theorem prover inside Nuprl. The embedding gives Nuprl effective access to most of the large body of formalized mathematics that the HOL community has amassed over the last decade. The new semantics is dramatically simpler than the old, and gives a novel and general way of adding set-theoretic equivalence classes to untyped functional programming languages.

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. We give a new semantic foundation for type theories in the lineage of Martin-Lof's "polymorphic extensional" type theory, and use it to give a model of the constructive type theory of the interactive theorem proving system Nuprl. These type theories are based on an operational semantics of an untyped programming language. We show how to integrate classical set-theoretic objects, such as functions-as-graphs and equivalence classes, into this operational framework. The new semantics is dramatically simpler than the previous ones, and enables direct reasoning about classical mathematics. A practical consequence is that it justifies a useful embedding of the logic of the HOL theorem prover that gives Nuprl effective access to most of the large body of formalized mathematics that the HOL community has amassed over the years. 1 Introduction The so-called "polymorphic extensional" type theory of Martin-Lof (Martin-Lof, 1982) has two features that set it apart from other constructive type t...

The open calculus of constructions integrates key features of Martin-Löf's type theory, the calculus of constructions, Membership Equational Logic, and Rewriting Logic into a single uniform language. The two key ingredients are dependent function types and conditional rewriting modulo equational theories. We explore the open calculus of constructions as a uniform framework for programming, specification and interactive verification in an equational higher-order style. By having equational logic and rewriting logic as executable sublogics we preserve the advantages of a first-order semantic and logical framework and especially target applications involving symbolic computation and symbolic execution of nondeterministic and concurrent systems.