ECB asset purchase: Stop thought experiments by Hanno Beck, Aloys Prinz

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Teletransporter and origami by A. M. Kardash

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DÜŞÜNCE DENEYLERİNİN EPİSTEMOLOJİK STATÜSÜ: GALILEO’NUN PİSA DENEYİNE İLİŞKİN KARŞILAŞTIRMALI BİR ÇALIŞMA by Mustafa Efe Ateş

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DÜŞÜNCE DENEYLERİNİN DOĞASI VE İŞLEVİ by Lokman Çilingir

Subjects: “…thought experiments…”
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Consumer Credit as a Provision of General Interest? by Irina Domurath

“…As was the case in the financial crisis of 2008, we now have an opportunity to rethink the role of consumer credit in society and design and create a legal framework that adequately reflects that role. The following thought experiment hopes to give impetus to legal reforms.…”
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R. V. Cuhna. Will I ever be a Cyborg? / trans. from Engl. R. L. Kochnev by R. L. Kochnev

“…I will also describe the basics about Olson’s animalist view but let us first look at the rough outline of my thought experiment. The essentials are as follows, the rest I will provide later, as we go along.…”
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The Thirsty Traveler and Luck-Free Moral Luck by Samuel Kahn

“…In the first and second, I examine Sartorio’s account of the causal structure of the famous Thirsty Traveler thought experiment. I argue that this account does not withstand critical scrutiny. …”
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Encoding Financial Records for Historical Research by Kathryn Tomasek, Syd Bauman

“…This paper focuses on a thought experiment in which the authors propose an encoding system not unlike the contextual markup of prosopographies or gazetteers using TEI P5 that could be used to capture the particular financial semantics involved in HFRs. …”
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Dire ce qui n’est pas encore là. Le statut logique de l’usage dans les énoncés de conception architecturale by Louis Vitalis

“…It proceeds to a thought experiment comparing statements from sociology and design to understand what distinguishes them. …”
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Philosophy as a Way of Life in Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics I: A Matter of Life and Death by Fabio Serranito

“…Furthermore, EE reframes the question of the best possible bios as a thought experiment from an antinatalist stance: for the sake of which would you choose to be born? …”
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Validity of black hole complementarity in an accelerating Schwarzschild black hole by Wontae Kim, Mungon Nam

“…To study its validity for an accelerating Schwarzschild black hole, which has a preferred direction, we perform the thought experiment proposed by Susskind and Thorlacius and further investigate the criteria set by Hayden and Preskill. …”
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Himma K. E. The Logic of Showing Possibility Claims: A Positive Argument for Inclusive Legal Positivism and Moral Grounds of Law / trans. from English V. V. Ogleznev, D. V. Shvedov by V. V. Ogleznev, D. V. Shvedov

“…Once the structural framework is adequately developed, the argument for MIT will be grounded on the strength of a thought experiment of a surprisingly simple kind. Indeed, the argument is inspired by a Razian argument for the possibility of a legal system without coercive enforcement machinery; on his view, a society of angels could still have a system of law without any coercive machinery. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Maria Lenk, Antony Mason, Markus Rutsche

“…Beyond asking people what their preferred birth year would be in the context of such a thought experiment, it is possible to compare the attractiveness of actual birth years (and thus epochs in which to lead one’s life) from official statistics. …”
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The Doctrine of Double Effect: An Aid in Decision-Making by Pavol Dancák

“…The paper presents current thought experiments, which clarify moral decision-making in dilemmatic situations. …”
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Particle approximations of Wigner distributions for n arbitrary observables by Ralph Sabbagh, Olga Movilla Miangolarra, Hamid Hezari, Tryphon T. Georgiou

“…Finally, we interpret the supports of these quasiprobability distributions in terms of repeated thought experiments.…”
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Improving diversification by a hybrid bat-Nelder-Mead algorithm and DDE for rapid convergence to solve global optimization by Enas Suhail, Mahmoud El-Alem, Omar Bazighifan, Ahmed Zekri

“…Deep analysis of the algorithm's behaviour was provided, and thoughtful experiments were conducted and evaluated utilizing several evaluation metrics together with the Wilcoxon signed rank test to accentuate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm.…”
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A Kantian Analysis of the Contemporary Views on Nothings and Absences by Osman Gazi Birgül

“…The second section ends by an analysis of the linguistic aspect of ‘nihil privativum’ as a rigid general term, arguing for its rigidity as a general abstract term by logical necessity, which is shown through two thought experiments within the discourse of possible worlds. …”
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