Thought Experiments
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A thought experiment is an imagined scenario constructed to test a principle against our considered judgments.
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Would you plug into a machine delivering perfect artificial happiness? Nozick's experience machine tests whether pleasure is everything.
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A thought experiment probes our concepts and commitments—it is an instrument, not a proof about the world.