What is a good source to read about thought experiments?

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  IDK but be careful, if they explode, it can blow your mind.

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• Sergio@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Have you taken a look at the plato.stanford.edu entry on such, specifically the bibliography?

  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/#Bib

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• Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s an applied thought experiment?

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Some of the best though experiments of all times (so far):

  archive.org/details/principleofrelat00eins

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  • SmoothOperator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What makes relativity the hardest thought experiment?

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    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Read it for real, try it out. Then you’ll know.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The numbers make my brain smoke.

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  • sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Godbless Archive

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• Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wikipedia, but follow the sources

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  • sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean more of a curated or collection of specifically thought experiments, discussion of same,

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    • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wikipedia, but follow the sources and the edits X2

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    • Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wikipedia, but follow the sources

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• snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To frame thought experiments and their limitations, Dave Snowden’s Cynefin and perhaps works on pragmatism, contextual functionalism, and relational frame theory, books like ACT in Context.

  Now, as to thought experiments, there’s Daniel Dennet’s Intuition Pumps.

  This is tangential, but maybe you’d be interested in George Lakoff’s framing. Lakoff would argue that frames are at least sometimes exactly the same thing as a thought experiment.

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