Thought-Experiments
Thought experiments
... requires thought experiments to be ‘maximally conservative’ and lie exclusively within the realm of contingent hypotheticals and never that of necessary hypotheticals, the spectrum of which we discussed in ...
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Why Thought Experiments Do Not Transcend Empiricism
... of thought experiments, a highly contrived activity within science with a deceptively simple ...a thought experiment in science that depends essentially on such mental modeling; or at least all the ...
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philosophy with children through thought experiments
... through thought experiments, by focusing on one in particular concerning founding a ...by thought experiments both in philosophy and in the natural sciences, and stresses a variety of ...
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Evaluating the Cognitive Success of Thought Experiments
... Galileo’s thought experiment was to reveal an internal contradiction involved in Aristotle’s theory of ...his thought experiment as a theoretical instrument with an specific ...of thought experi- ...
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How Thought Experiments Increase Understanding
... what thought experiments they invented and ...a thought experiment is for ‘explanation’” (Kosem and Özdemir 20 14, ...of thought experiments that fit into each of ...eye thought ...
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On Thought Experiments: Is There More to the Argument?
... the thought experiment is properly formulated? There must be some sort of mark of ...the thought experiment is properly formulated merely by reading its ...the thought experiment itself. It cannot ...
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QUANTUM THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS CAN DEFINE NATURE
... The thought experiments are an algorithm for finding practical laws out of principal laws, by serendipity rather than by logic. The workhorses will sometimes make use of wave functions just as the arabs do, ...
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Down to earth philosophy: an anti exceptionalist essay on thought experiments and philosophical methodology
... to thought experiments in that ...were thought experiments, sometimes really famous ones, taken from the philosophical literature, or easily recognizable variants of those (see ...
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Investigation of physics thought experiments’ effects on students’ logical problem solving skills
... Thought experiments are effective form in both teaching of physics and science and are performed in the ...century, thought experiments were used by famous scientists such as Galileo, Newton ...
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Bunzl on Sorensen's Thought Experiments
... Even though Sorensen thinks that thought experiments do their work by way of our (evolutionarily refined) intuitions, he also thinks we can capture the structure of [r] ...
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Thought experiments
... fingernails pulled out one by one by a sadistic but powerful torturer. She can stop the torture at any point by pressing a red button that will trigger a nuclear explosion and thus kill everyone, herself included. Often ...
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Thought experiments
... of thought experiments avoids these problems. The thought experimenter does not simply visualise herself dropping linked masses, for example, rather she constructs a model in which she drops linked ...
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Kantian Accounts of Thought Experiments
... According to Ørsted, TEs are widely used in mathematics, where they consist in the construction of concepts in the intuition: "When we allow a point to move in our imagination in order to produce a line, or a line to ...
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Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy
... Perhaps it was evident from the start that the solution offered was a poison pill. While it seems the most straightforward way for one to try to establish that for a given population the Positive Bias Assumption is ...
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Feldman on Sorensen's Thought Experiments
... Sorensen says that fallacies are inference rules.(p. 254) Sticking to this eliminates as fallacies many of the things routinely so classified. He also includes a sec[r] ...
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Language, thought and reference.
... A system such as Frege's, on which to be rneaningfiul is to have descriptive meaning, conforms closely with hguition in its analysis of expressions such as definite descriptions and co[r] ...
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HOMOEOPATHY - A THOUGHT OF THE HOUR
... The present demand of improvement in Community Health has been no doubt a fertile area for homoeopathy to be worked upon. A thought can be there of giving better MCH care through homoeopathy through practical on- ...
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THE THOUGHT POLICE Article
... In contrast to traditional computer monitoring that notes sites an employee has visited on the Internet, Awareness Technologies' InterGuard application will record screen shots showing e[r] ...
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Food for inefficient thought
... This is not exclusively a study of the effects of food additives; rather, it is an investigation of an experimental diet, which, as the authors point out, differs from the control diet i[r] ...
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