Why Thought Experiments Are Not Arguments
Why Thought Experiments Are Not Arguments
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为什么思想实验不是论证
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1999
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M. Bishop
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难道思想实验只不过是论证吗？我认为，如果将某些思想实验视为论证，就不可能理解它们的历史轨迹。爱因斯坦和玻尔对盒子里的时钟思想实验的结果存在分歧，因此他们用不同的论点重建了它。每当科学家对思想实验的结果存在分歧时，这种情况都是可以预料到的。由于任何这样的情节都由两个论证组成，但只有一个思想实验，因此思想实验不能是论证。
Are thought experiments nothing but arguments? I argue that it is not possible to make sense of the historical trajectory of certain thought experiments if one takes them to be arguments. Einstein and Bohr disagreed about the outcome of the clock-in-the-box thought experiment, and so they reconstructed it using different arguments. This is to be expected whenever scientists disagree about a thought experiment's outcome. Since any such episode consists of two arguments but just one thought experiment, the thought experiment cannot be the arguments.