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A universal inductive inference machine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Daniel N. Osherson,
Michael Stob and
Scott Weinstein
Daniel N. Osherson
Affiliation:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Michael Stob
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546
Scott Weinstein
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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Abstract

A paradigm of scientific discovery is defined within a first-order logical framework. It is shown that within this paradigm there exists a formal scientist that is Turing computable and universal in the sense that it solves every problem that any scientist can solve. It is also shown that universal scientists exist for no regular logics that extend first-order logic and satisfy the Löwenheim-Skolem condition.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , June 1991, pp. 661 - 672
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1991

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