This paper introduces a new family of models of intensional Martin-L "of type theory. We use constructive ordered algebra in toposes. Identity types in the models are given by a notion of Moore path. By considering a particular gros topos, we show that there is such a model that is non-truncated, i.e. contains non-trivial structure at all dimensions. In other words, in this model a type in a nested sequence of identity types can contain more than one element, no matter how great the degree of nesting. Although inspired by existing non-truncated models of type theory based on simplicial and on cubical sets, the notion of model presented here is notable for avoiding any form of Kan filling condition in the semantics of types.
Spitters [Section 3] SpittersB:cubstt uses a somewhat different formulation of Moore path in the cubical topos @cite_2 . His notion is the reflexive-transitive closure of the usual path types given by the bounded interval. For better properties and to get a closer relationship with our version, one would like to quotient these cubical Spitters-Moore'' path objects up to degenerate paths; but the undecidability of degeneracy seems to stop one being able to do that while retaining the (uniform) Kan-fibrancy of such path objects. Here we can side-step such issues, since notably our models manage to avoid using a notion of Kan fibrancy at all.
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This article presents three characterizations of the weak factorization systems on finitely complete categories that interpret intensional dependent type theory with Sigma-, Pi-, and Id-types. The first characterization is that the weak factorization system (L,R) has the properties that L is stable under pullback along R and that all maps to a terminal object are in R. We call such weak factorization systems type-theoretic. The second is that the weak factorization system has an Id-presentation: roughly, it is generated by Id-types in the empty context. The third is that the weak factorization system (L, R) is generated by a Moore relation system, a generalization of the notion of Moore paths.