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I want to make clear that this blog is not predicting anything, but is rather proposing a thought-experiment in the spirit of Levine.
Craig K. Comstock: Will Our Species Survive Another Century? Craig K. Comstock 2011
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I want to make clear that this blog is not predicting anything, but is rather proposing a thought-experiment in the spirit of Levine.
Craig K. Comstock: Will Our Species Survive Another Century? Craig K. Comstock 2011
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Seems to me that your thought-experiment is putting its thumb on the scale there.
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This appears to be a loony vaguely bonkers thought-experiment in Cosmology.
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Seems to me that your thought-experiment is putting its thumb on the scale there.
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So try this little thought-experiment: go to, say, Craigslist New York.
Archive 2010-04-01 2010
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As a thought-experiment, I tried doing her analysis from a U.S. perspective:
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Rawls gave us the "veil of ignorance" thought-experiment that calls on us to consider any policy or moral proposition without knowing what our own attributes—age, race, intelligence, economic class, education—would be.
A New Social Contract Kenneth Minogue 2011
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So try this little thought-experiment: go to, say, Craigslist New York.
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The thought-experiment about deporting citizens is sophistry.
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