Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Gedankenexperiment

The idea of a "Gedankenexperiment" (German for "thought experiment") is to think through the steps and consequences of a scientific hypothesis conceptually, rather than set up an actual experiment to test the hypothesis.

Interestingly, I just wrote about thought experiments last week. Have you ever tried this in your every day life? Take an activity and visualize it out from start to finish. Did you remember something you might have forgotten if you hadn't done this "thought experiment"? Sometimes doing a thought experiment can help you figure out if doing something is a good idea or not.

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