Sentence examples for thought experiment of from inspiring English sources

You only have to try the thought experiment of placing any American president, and particularly George Bush, in that position to recognise what could have gone wrong.

Geach was a great influence on Philippa Foot, who borrowed Geach's thought experiment of whether a fat man stuck at the mouth of a pothole should be killed in order to save the people inside.

She felt that a number of the premises on which she had built the novel were still compelling, and gave herself high marks for the successful "thought experiment" of creating a world that lacked war, exploitation, and sexuality as social constants.

Think back to the ET thought experiment of Section 3.

This question lies at the heart of Schrödinger's famous gedankenexperiment (thought experiment) of a dead-and-alive cat [48].

The famous wax thought experiment of the Second Meditation is supposed to illustrate (among other things) a procedure to "dig out" what is innate.

Yet a thought experiment on the economics of threat control shows that prioritization is imperative.

He describes "$20 Per Gallon" as "a thought experiment on the what-ifs of high gas prices focusing on tangible changes rather than abstract ones".

These are just thought experiments, of course; for obvious reasons, we don't have much empirical evidence about how invisible people actually behave.

Magyar's Stainless series explores Einstein's thought experiments of simultaneity, a part of his theory of relativity.

To justify these claims, I present a sequence of three thought experiments on a simple trade model.