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    It is not the case that The practice of thought experiments extends beyond Christianity to Islam and Judaism

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    • 1.What Islamic and Jewish thinkers termed 'hypothetical reasoning' (faraḍī in Arabic) served primarily legal-jurisprudential functions, not epistemic ones.
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    • 2.Assimilating legal hypotheticals in fiqh and Talmudic 'what if' cases to the category of thought experiments conflates rhetorical pedagogy with philosophical methodology.
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    • 3.The philosophical thought experiment as defined by Mach requires deliberate isolation of variables to test intuitions, a criterion absent from most pre-modern Islamic and Jewish examples.
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    • 1.Ibn Sina's Floating Man argument, the strongest candidate for an Islamic thought experiment, is a singular case and cannot establish a broader 'practice' across the tradition.
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    • 2.Extrapolating from one or two canonical examples to a sustained cross-cultural 'practice' of thought experimentation commits the fallacy of hasty generalization.
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    • There is evidence of the practice of thought experiments in the context of Islam and Judaism
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