gedanken
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- noun
- /ɡəˈdɑːŋkən/
- Specialized
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experimento mental
- In your gedanken experiment:
- gedanken experiment
So he made a idea of a gedanken experiment that is just a a bar with a couple rings on it.
- So he made a idea of a gedanken experiment that is just a a bar with a couple rings on it.
Examples
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So he made a idea of a gedanken experiment that is just a a bar with a couple rings on it.
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Michael JP: I love the gedanken "what if" exercises.
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And we'll come back, we'll, we'll look at a couple of more gedanken experiments and try to see what they say.
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There is utility in gedanken experiments, and also danger.
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In The Monadology... Leibniz performs a Gedanken experiment or "thought experiment"....
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If Willis had read it carefully in 2003, he wouldn't have made the error of thinking that his own gedanken experiment falsifies it.
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In 1939, two physicists—J. Robert Oppenheimer, later head of the Manhattan Project, and his graduate student Hartland Snyder—did a thought experiment, a Gedanken, in the best Einsteinian tradition.
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A gedanken experiment allows scientists to consider complex theories without the need for physical testing.
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Many philosophers use gedanken experiments to illustrate ethical dilemmas and provoke critical thinking.
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The concept of a gedanken experiment helps to visualize scenarios that challenge our understanding of reality.
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Etymology
Gedanken comes from the German word Gedanke, which means 'thought'. The word was shortened from gedankenexperiment and now usually means a 'thought experiment', an imagined test used by scientists and philosophers to explore an idea in the mind.