Does the biextensional collapse satisfy a universal property?
There doesn’t seem to be an obvious map either C→^C or ^C→C (in each case one of the arrows is going the wrong way), but maybe there’s some other way to make it universal?
But then shouldn’t there be a natural biextensional equivalence C→^C?
Suppose C=(A,E,⋆), and denote ^C=(^A,^E,⋆).
Then the map A→^A is clear enough, it’s simply the quotient map.
But there’s not a unique map ^E→E - any section of the quotient map will do, and it doesn’t seem we can make this choice naturally.
I think maybe the subcategory of just “agent-extensional” frames is reflective, and then the subcategory of “environment-extensional” frames is coreflective.
And there’s a canonical (i.e natural) zig-zag C→(^A,E,⋆)←^C
Does the biextensional collapse satisfy a universal property? There doesn’t seem to be an obvious map either C→^C or ^C→C (in each case one of the arrows is going the wrong way), but maybe there’s some other way to make it universal?
I think the right way to think about biextensional collapse categorically is as a reflector.
But then shouldn’t there be a natural biextensional equivalence C→^C? Suppose C=(A,E,⋆), and denote ^C=(^A,^E,⋆). Then the map A→^A is clear enough, it’s simply the quotient map. But there’s not a unique map ^E→E - any section of the quotient map will do, and it doesn’t seem we can make this choice naturally.
I think maybe the subcategory of just “agent-extensional” frames is reflective, and then the subcategory of “environment-extensional” frames is coreflective. And there’s a canonical (i.e natural) zig-zag C→(^A,E,⋆)←^C
You might be right, I am not sure.
It looks to me like it satisfies the definition on wikipedia, which does not require that the morphism rB is unique, only that it exists.