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    Samuel Rathmanner — Carmelics
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    Samuel Rathmanner

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy / Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

    Samuel Rathmanner is a contemporary researcher in artificial intelligence and the foundations of inductive reasoning. He is best known for his collaborative work with Marcus Hutter on a philosophical and mathematical treatise defending Solomonoff induction as a formal theory of universal inference.

    Notable Achievements

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    Co-authored 'A Philosophical Treatise of Universal Induction' with Marcus Hutter (2011)

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    Provided a rigorous defense of Solomonoff induction against standard philosophical objections

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    Contributed to formal epistemology bridging algorithmic information theory and inductive reasoning

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    Applied Tarski-style semantic limitation results to constraints on formal systems

    Positions & Arguments(1)

    Philosophy of Language

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    The semantics of a formal system rich enough to contain elementary mathematics cannot be fully defined in terms of mathematical functions within that same system.

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    The semantics of a formal system rich enough to contain elementary mathematics cannot be fully defined in terms of mathematical functions within that same system.

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    Analytic Philosophy / Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

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    Philosophy of Language1

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