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thought experiment

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


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Latour calls this form a "Gedanken-Austellung"--a thought exhibition, akin to what philosophers refer to as a thought experiment.
Buck-Morss, as a scholar of the Frankfurt School, or dissident Marxists who pose a critical theory of society and politics, offers a thought experiment in response to the racialization of Islam and Arabs: what if there were a counter-hegemonic global solidarity movement?
In 1930, Bohr forced Einstein, through a thought experiment, to accept the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics.
 
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