The Evolution of Thought Experiment

In Thought experiments. New York: Oxford University Press (1992)
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This chapter seeks to define “thought experiment” and dig to its origin. It argues that thought experiments evolved from experiment through a process of attenuation. This builds inductive momentum behind the theme that thought experiments are experiments.

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10.1093/019512913X.003.0009

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