Abstract: If imagination is free to wander about in a thought experiment, without anything equivalent to the principle of reality able to intervene, is it ever possible that a thought experiment would not work per se? Of these two options, only one is real: -- Either all thought experiments are successful, and there is no need to be a stubborn falsificationist to conclude that the very idea of a thought experiment should be abandoned. -- Or there is a distinction between successful and unsuccessful thought experiments, and the idea of a thought experimen...
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Cognitive science