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- noun Plural form of
gedankenexperiment .
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Examples
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The main difference compare with the “fathers” was the real life realization of the gedankenexperiments.
Science and Unobservable Things Sean 2008
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Anarchy is better in “many” situations, where “many” means this list of gedankenexperiments he has prepared.
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UPDATE: I will add that much of Theology more resembles science than faith : the experiments are usually gedankenexperiments, thought-experiments, working out the consequences if one particular scriptural interpretation was true, but are experiments nonetheless.
Archive 2007-02-01 Zoe Brain 2007
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UPDATE: I will add that much of Theology more resembles science than faith : the experiments are usually gedankenexperiments, thought-experiments, working out the consequences if one particular scriptural interpretation was true, but are experiments nonetheless.
Science vs Faith Flowcharts Zoe Brain 2007
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Asymptotic string states can be identified with results of gedankenexperiments which we do not know how to perform but we can hypothesize that they might be possible in principle (if string theory is correct).
How many dimensions are there? Sean 2005
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