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    It is not the case that Sorensen's analysis shows thought experiments like Galileo's falling bodies resist clean reconstruction as either deductive or inductive arguments, exposing a genuine classificatory gap in Norton's framework.

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    • 1.Analogical reasoning can be formalized as inductive argument with suppressed premises, so no genuine gap exists—only incomplete explicit reconstruction.
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    • 2.The classificatory problem may reflect inadequate analysis of specific cases rather than Norton's framework being fundamentally incomplete.
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    • 3.Even if some thought experiments resist easy categorization, this doesn't show Norton's framework is wrong—just that classification requires more care.
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    • 1.Galileo's thought experiment uses analogical reasoning about air resistance, which fits neither deductive nor inductive argument forms cleanly.
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    • 2.Norton's binary framework (deductive vs. inductive) assumes all reasoning reduces to these categories, but thought experiments often use intuitive modal reasoning.
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    • 3.Sorensen identifies cases where the inferential structure depends on imaginative reconstruction rather than explicit logical premises, revealing a gap.
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