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Like a bee on a windowpane: Heyting's reflections on solipsism

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This paper presents the content of the unpublished notes that the Dutch mathematician Arend Heyting wrote in different periods of his life on solipsism and that are preserved in Heyting's archive at the University of Amsterdam. Most of the notes are quoted here and translated into English. Their study shows the originality of Heyting's reflections on a subject that was typical of his master, L. E. J. Brouwer, the father of intuitionism.

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Franchella, M. Like a bee on a windowpane: Heyting's reflections on solipsism. Synthese 105, 207–251 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064219

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  • Unpublished Note
  • Dutch Mathematician