Term
Thought experiment
An experiment carried out only in the imagination: you set up a situation and reason step by step about what follows from it, to test an idea.
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe, Brian Greene
Explained in
- Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe, Brian Greene
- Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Daniel C. Dennett
An imagined situation that people think through to test an idea when a real experiment can't be done.