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62 4 Type assignment with equality4B11 Remark By the way, although earlier remarks in this chapter may have giventhe impression that without equality-invariance a type-<strong>theory</strong> has no reasonablesemantics, this is not strictly true. Plotkin 1994 has described a semantics for TA2(and some extensions) based on modelling the concept of reduction rather thanequality. Plotkin's approach seems closer to the "spirit" of TA2; in fact TA2 hasat its heart the notion of reduction rather than conversion, and has always beenseen primarily as a tool for eliminating type-conflicts in practical computations orreductions, rather than as a formal <strong>theory</strong> of equality.

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