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Fiction as Thought Experiment

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Catherine Z. Elgin
Publisher: Journals Gateway
Perspectives on Science (2014) 22 (2): 221–241.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/POSC_a_00128
Published: 01 June 2014
Abstract
Although fictions and thought experiments are not physical realizations of the phenomena they pertain to, like real experiments, they exemplify properties or patterns that they share with those phenomena. They thereby afford epistemic access to properties and patterns that are realized in fact.
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