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    Supports→Ancient Greek philosophers used thought experiments despite lacking a corresponding term or modern notion of them

    There is no ancient Greek term corresponding to what we nowadays refer to as a thought experiment

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    The practice of thought experiments is not an invention of philosophy and modern science. On the other hand, the view that the Pre-Socratics “invented thought experimentation as a cognitive procedure and practiced it with great dedication and versatility” (Rescher 2005, p. 2) might be a stretch. With such a claim one risks underestimating the entanglement of concepts and corresponding reality. It is probably much more correct to say something like the following: “There is no ancient Greek term c

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