# The Philosophy of Machine Learning, or: What Comes After Hegel?

DevFeed: [The Philosophy of Machine Learning, or: What Comes After Hegel?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-philosophy-of-machine-learning-or-what-comes-after-hegel-40130.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://korbonits.com/blog/2026-04-09-the-philosophy-of-machine-learning-or-what-comes-after-hegel/>)

Published: 2026-04-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Alex Korbonits](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/alex-korbonits.md>)

Topics: [Automated reasoning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automated-reasoning.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [LLMs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llms.md>), [Math and Logic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/math-and-logic.md>), [pattern matching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pattern-matching.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [automated-reasoning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automated-reasoning.md>), [conditional-probability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conditional-probability.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [logic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logic.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [pattern-matching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pattern-matching.md>), [reasoning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reasoning.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion essay compares large language models with Kant's distinction between a priori structures and a posteriori experience. It argues that LLMs learn patterns from human text but lack reliable logical scaffolding, and presents automated reasoning systems such as SMT solvers and theorem provers as a possible complement.

## Source excerpt

A notebook entry that maps AI paradigms onto the history of Western philosophy -- from scholasticism to Hegel -- and asks what comes next when the current moment exhausts itself.