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Fiction as Thought Experiment
- Perspectives on Science
- The MIT Press
- Volume 22, Number 2, Summer 2014
- pp. 221-241
- Article
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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.