The author of the textbook I'm following has emphasised the importance of a class of judgements include the entailment *:□, that is

\[\Delta; \Gamma \vdash *:\Box\]

He's done this by talking about them a lot, and including them in the exercises a lot. But. he hasn't spelled out why they're important - I guess expected us to work out it.

But I haven't! I'd welcome help...

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importance of $\Delta ; \Gamma \vdash *:\Box$

I've been working through Type Theory and Formal Proof (Nederpelt). In the content up to the end of Chapter 9, including the exercises, the author discusses judgements which entail $*:\Box$. That i...

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