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thought experiment
(redirected from Gedankenexperimente)

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thought experiment [′thȯt ik′sper·ə·mənt]


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Schillers Dramen sind vielmehr literarische Gebilde von hochster Artifizialitat, in denen ethische Probleme bewusst ubersteigert und als dramatische Gedankenexperimente vorgefuhrt werden (von Stransky-Stranka-Greifenfels 387).
Von der Ethik zur Asthetik: Puskins ironische Weiterentwicklung von ... by Schmid, Ulrich / Germano-Slavica
Moreover, being primarily a theoretician rather than an experimenter, Einstein was able to employ his visualizing skill in his imaginative thought experiments, Gedankenexperimente, starting with the haunting picture at age sixteen of chasing or riding on a beam of light, which Einstein declared later in his autobiography to have contained the seed of his later work on special relativity.
On the art of scientific imagination by Daedalus
 
 
 
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