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What are the advantages to impredicativity?
Mostly when I read about impredicativity I see people bemoaning its downsides.
But it's not clear to me why I would want impredicativity in the first place.
Impredicativity is useful for analyzing ...
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Why should you "never resort to polymorphism when initiality would do"?
In the concluding statement of "universe hierarchies", Conor McBride calls it
[...] that key lesson which I learned from James McKinna: never resort to polymorphism when initiality will do.
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