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  2. worldatlas.com

    The Beetle in The Box thought experiment is also known as the Private Language Argument. Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein developed the thought experiment to challenge the way we look at introspection and how it informs the language we use. The thought experiment starts by imagining a group of individuals, each holding a box.
  3. Thought experiments are mental concepts or hypotheses, often resembling riddles, which are used by philosophers and scientists as simple ways of illuminating what are usually very dense ideas. Most often, they're used in more abstract fields like philosophy and theoretical physics, where physical experiments aren't possible. They serve as some hearty food for thought, but given their ...
  4. theclever.com

    This kind of philosophical examination of our definition of reality brings up the possibility that we are all existing in some form of an illusion that we have no true way of knowing whether it is real or not. ... This is one of the most famous thought experiments in physics invented during 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger as ...
  5. plato.stanford.edu

    This kind of positive connection is what Williamson has in mind when addressing the role of intuitions in philosophical thought experiments like the famous Gettier cases, which overnight found acceptance by the philosophical community in their aim to refute the view that knowledge is justified true belief. ... Sören, 1996, Thought Experiments ...
  6. guides.gccaz.edu

    What If. . .Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy is a brief collection of over 100 classic and contemporary "thought experiments," each exploring an important philosophical argument. These thought experiments introduce students to the kind of disciplined thought required in philosophy, and awaken their intellectual curiosity.
  7. adarshbadri.me

    Philosophical thought experiments, which have been a crucial component of philosophical research for millennia and are still relevant and thought-provoking today, ranging from Plato's Cave to the Trolley Problem. ... The Trolley Problem is a famous ethical thought experiment that challenges the ethics of sacrificing one life to save many ...
  8. en.wikipedia.org

    The ancient Greek δείκνυμι, deiknymi, 'thought experiment', "was the most ancient pattern of mathematical proof", and existed before Euclidean mathematics, [7] where the emphasis was on the conceptual, rather than on the experimental part of a thought experiment.. Johann Witt-Hansen established that Hans Christian Ørsted was the first to use the equivalent German term ...
  9. plato.stanford.edu

    In her thought experiment we are asked to imagine a famous violinist falling into a coma. The society of music lovers determines from medical records that you and you alone can save the violinist's life by being hooked up to him for nine months. ... Stinner, A., 1990, Philosophy, Thought Experiments, and Large Context Problems in the Secondary ...
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