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Jean Abou Samra (new account) on Nostr: nprofile1q…zdh59 That looks exactly like what Coquand published under the name ...

That looks exactly like what Coquand published under the name “paradox of trees” https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01995104 (he attributes the idea to De Bruijn).

In the abstract, he writes that it's open whether such a construction is possible without W-types. I'm not aware of any newer developments.