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In Michael T. Stuart, Yiftach Fehige & James Robert Brown (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments. London: Routledge. pp. 1-28 (2018)
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Michael T. Stuart
University of York
Yiftach J. H. Fehige
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
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