Definition for thought experiment - Oxford Dictionaries Online (World English)

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	thought experiment (thought ex\|peri\|ment) noun a mental assessment of the implications of a hypothesis: the far-sighted politician must do a thought experiment and apply the test of war		More words in this category absolute apodictic category connate cynic cynicism deontology determinism entelechy eudaemonism interpellate logical necessity noumenon Presocratic primary qualities self-existent stoa subject syncretize transcendental Nearby Words those Thoth thou ¹ thou ² though thought ¹ thought ² thought control thought disorder thought experiment thought form thought leader thought pattern thought police thought reform thought transference thought wave thought-provoking thought-reader