id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
work_7onppkuk25g5rcosqacbi2dqsi	John D. Norton	On Thought Experiments: Is There More to the Argument?	2004	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5340	434	64	Thought experiments in science are merely picturesque argumentation. Since I claim that thought experiments are merely picturesque arguments, James Brown and Tamar Szabó Gendler both urge that thought experiments have more powers epistemically than mere argumentation—they special relativity provides a consistent account of moving bodies, the contradictory outcome of the combined thought experiment cannot be right. I believe that thought experiments in science are merely picturesque argumentation. First I urge that thought experiments in science can always be reconstructed as arguments based on explicit or tacit assumptions that yield I will use the rod and slot thought experiment The error of the rod and slot thought experiment is readily diagnosed and mended by looking at it as an argument. The rod and slot thought experiment is just such a case. by noting that the outcome of the rod and slot thought experiment contradicts special relativity.	./cache/work_7onppkuk25g5rcosqacbi2dqsi.pdf	./txt/work_7onppkuk25g5rcosqacbi2dqsi.txt