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    It is not the case that Destructive thought experiments can be divided into at least three subtypes.

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    • 1.The distinction between contradiction-revealing and assumption-undermining thought experiments collapses, since exposing a contradiction just is undermining a foundational assumption.
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    • 2.Lakatos's methodology of scientific research programmes shows that theory-refuting thought experiments are always reinterpreted as protecting core assumptions, dissolving the subtype boundary.
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    • 1.Daniel Dennett's 'intuition pump' critique entails that all destructive thought experiments operate by the same mechanism: redirecting intuitions rather than through distinct logical operations.
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    • 2.If all destruction proceeds via intuition redirection, the threefold typology describes rhetorical surface differences, not genuinely distinct philosophical categories.
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    • 1.Some destructive thought experiments draw out a contradiction within a theory to refute it.
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    • 2.Some destructive thought experiments show that a theory conflicts with other beliefs we hold.
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    • 3.Some destructive thought experiments undermine a central assumption or premise of the thought experiment itself.
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