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Thought experiment — A thought experiment (from the German Gedankenexperiment ) is a proposal for an experiment that would test a hypothesis or theory but cannot actually be performed due to practical limitations; instead its purpose is to explore the potential… … Wikipedia
thought experiment — In a thought experiment, instead of bringing about a course of events, as in a normal experiment, we are invited to imagine one. We may then be able to ‘see’ that some result follows, or that some description is appropriate, or our inability to… … Philosophy dictionary
Thought suppression — Thought suppression, the process of deliberately trying to stop thinking about certain thoughts (Wegner, 1989), is associated with obsessive compulsive disorder, in which a sufferer will repeatedly (usually unsuccessfully) attempt to prevent or… … Wikipedia
thought — thought1 /thawt/, n. 1. the product of mental activity; that which one thinks: a body of thought. 2. a single act or product of thinking; idea or notion: to collect one s thoughts. 3. the act or process of thinking; mental activity: Thought as… … Universalium
Experiments with Truth — Infobox Album | Name = Experiments With Truth Type = studio Artist = Dopamine Released = 2006 Recorded = Genre = Alternative/Rock Length = Label = Producer = Reviews = Last album = What Went Wrong And Who Is The Betrayer? This album = Experiments … Wikipedia
Violinist (thought experiment) — The Violinist is a famous thought experiment first posed by Judith Jarvis Thomson in 1971.The famous violinist thought experiment The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes her thought experiment as follows::Judith Jarvis Thomson provided… … Wikipedia
Twin Earth thought experiment — The Twin Earth thought experiment was presented by philosopher Hilary Putnam in his 1973 paper Meaning and Reference and subsequent 1975 paper The Meaning of Meaning , as an early argument for what has subsequently come to be known as semantic… … Wikipedia
Demon (thought experiment) — In thought experiments philosophers occasionally imagine entities with special abilities as a way to pose tough intellectual challenges or highlight apparent paradoxes. Examples include: Descartes’ malicious demon – Cartesian skepticism (also… … Wikipedia
History of evolutionary thought — This article is about the history of evolutionary thought in biology. For the history of evolutionary thought in the social sciences, see Sociocultural evolution. For the history of religious discussions, see History of the creation evolution… … Wikipedia
List of experiments from Lilo & Stitch — Kixx redirects here. For the soccer team, see Philadelphia Kixx. Image of experiment 626, also known as Stitch. The most popular of the experiments. This is a list of experiments from the Disney animated Lilo Stitch franchise, a series of… … Wikipedia
