Thought Experiments.

Brown, J. R., & Fehige, Y. (2023). Thought Experiments. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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Reference work

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2023

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/

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• Thought Experiment
  • The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes this family as devices of imagination used for conceptual analysis, theory choice, illustration, exploration, and education, while emphasizing the disputed question of how reasoning about an imagined case can teach us about reality.

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