Thought Experiments, Puzzles, and Paradoxes

Philosophy Study 3 (8) (2013)
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I wish to explore the idea that thought experiments are best accounted for as a special case of a narrative that features an interplay between puzzles and paradoxes. Furthermore, I believe the more successfully thought experiments manage to combine puzzles and paradoxes the more insightful and instructive they become. I suggest the latter kind of thought experiments also use the technique of mental variation.

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10.17265/2159-5313/2013.08.006

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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper.John Allen Paulos - 1996 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 39 (3):459.

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