Thought experiments and science.

[Nearly Sane]

Interesting little essay on the value of thought experiments.



https://aeon.co/essays/do-thought-experiments-really-uncover-new-scientific-truths

[floo]

Interesting little essay on the value of thought experiments.



https://aeon.co/essays/do-thought-experiments-really-uncover-new-scientific-truths

It looks interesting, although I won't pretend to understand it all.

[Nearly Sane]

It looks interesting, although I won't pretend to understand it all.

As long as it promote interesting questions, then that's good. I doubt that people understand all of what they write never mind what other's write.

[Harrowby Hall]

I'm tempted to think that the most useful bit was the quotation from Feynman - "philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds".

[jeremyp]

Thought experiments are useful although they must be used with caution. For example Galileo's famous thought experiment about why heavy objects must fall at the same rate as light objects is fallacious.

[Walter]

I'm tempted to think that the most useful bit was the quotation from Feynman - "philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds".

yes , I like that one ,says it all really .

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I'm tempted to think that the most useful bit was the quotation from Feynman - "philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds".

or as useful as Feynman diagrams are to people who aren't having their particle hobby indulged by payment, eh Hall?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Interesting little essay on the value of thought experiments.



https://aeon.co/essays/do-thought-experiments-really-uncover-new-scientific-truths

A Paeon from Aeon to Dennett?