The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. They demonstrate gaps in our knowledge and help us recognize the limits of what can be known. Thought experiments push us outside our comfort zone by forcing us to confront questions we cannot answer with ease. The purpose of a thought experiment is to encourage speculation, logical thinking and to change paradigms. What is the point of thought experiments? Science is conceived from philosophy and is thus, dependent on its theories, to begin with. The main difference between science and philosophy is that science deals with hypothesis testing based on factual data whereas philosophy deals with logical analysis based on reason. Karl Popper (1965) calls it the method of “conjectures and refutations.” What is the difference of philosophy versus science? “The” scientific method is, accordingly, the testing of universal statements offered as scientific laws by comparing deductive consequences of laws with statements of observational facts about the world. What is scientific method of philosophizing?
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