Thought Experiments and the Experimentalist Challenge
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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Thought experiments
... in thought alone, or in some more concrete medium such as plasticine, isn’t all that ...One thought experimenter will be able to visualise a situation, another will use a scrawled diagram, and a third will ...
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Thought experiments
... argument. Thought experiments are often fun and easy, arguments are usually ...a thought experiment we imagine the situation unfolding in our mind’s ...cases, thought experiments ...
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Considerations on Scientific Thought Experiments
... Platonic thought experiments, the old theory is rejected and replaced by a new one without any new empirical information being provided, solely based on rational insight into abstract ...
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Kantian Accounts of Thought Experiments
... be thought of as realizations of TEs; conversely, all empirical TEs must be conceivable as preparing and anticipating REs: They must, that is, anticipate a connection between objects which, when thought of ...
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Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy
... distracting features of the case or the conditions, and subjects understand what they are doing and are motivated to try to respond in the right way in response just to what the scenario says. Maybe so. But, first, how ...
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On Thought Experiments: Is There More to the Argument?
... a thought experiment consists of the execution of an ...that thought experiments exploit a mysterious mental power whose products can be validated separately by ...a thought experiment ...
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Thought Experiments and Simulation Experiments: Exploring Hypothetical Worlds
... The mysteriousness vanished only when the computer-generated image of the Lorenz attractor displayed the intricate trajectories of the system, making sense of their strange behaviour. Such visualizations were based on ...
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Moral Thought-Experiments, Intuitions, and Heuristics
... laboratory experiments or Þ eld trials yield outcomes that come any- where near this ...that thought-experimental results must exhibit a much stricter ...
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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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150.Special Relativity –Experiments, Thought
... interference pattern As the two beams travel from M to O, they interfere and create an interference pattern. The observer can see the pattern on the screen at O. If the experiment really was moving through the ether as ...
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How Thought Experiments Increase Understanding
... of thought experiments that seem to have been designed explicitly for this ...this thought experiment in Chapter 5 of the Origin, Darwin has already introduced and argued for natural ...a ...
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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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The Sociological Challenge of Reflexivity in Bourdieusian Thought
... tripartite challenge: the ability to grapple with (a) objective, (b) intersubjective and (c) subjective dimensions of ...are thought to be’. 180 The Bourdieusian challenge, then, consists in exposing ...
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Telling Stories in Science: Feyerabend and Thought Experiments
... of thought experiments has touched on the work of Kuhn, Popper, Duhem, Mach, Lakatos, and other big names of the 20 th ...surrounding thought experiments: 1) the claim that the epistemology of ...
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QUANTUM THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS CAN DEFINE NATURE
... what we do some things will be completely unaffected and will happen the same way, is something we do all the time, scarcely realizing it. If we knew more about it we might reason this way more effectively. There is just ...
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Why Thought Experiments Do Not Transcend Empiricism
... of thought experiments if their conclusions were inerrant or at least almost always ...with thought experiments is that we have no such history. Thought experiments have proven ...
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The Puzzle of Thought Experiments in Conceptual Metaphor Research
... the experiments we will analyze in the second case study in Section 5, the p-context contains the following methodological principle: Empirical research makes use of real ...in thought and language; ...
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The Forever War: understanding, science fiction, and thought experiments
... the challenge of applying the Lorentz transformations to two quadruples of coordinates, a cognitive agent could behave in all the ways we would expect her to ...
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