thought experiment

English

Etymology

A calque of German Gedankenexperiment.

Noun

thought experiment (plural thought experiments)

(physics, philosophy) An attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination.

Derived terms

zombie thought experiment

Translations

attempt to solve a problem using human imagination

Chinese:
Mandarin: 思想實驗／思想实验 (sīxiǎng shíyàn)
Czech: myšlenkový experiment m
Danish: tankeeksperiment n
Estonian: mõtteline eksperiment
Finnish: ajatuskoe
French: exercice mental m, expérience imaginaire f, expérience de pensée (fr) f
German: Gedankenexperiment (de) n
Hungarian: gondolatkísérlet (hu)
Italian: esperimento mentale m
Japanese: 思考実験 (ja) (しこうじっけん, shikō jikken)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tankeeksperiment n

Nynorsk: tankeeksperiment n
Polish: eksperyment myślowy m
Romanian: experiment mintal n, experiment de gândire n, experiment intelectic n
Russian: мы́сленный экспериме́нт m (mýslennyj eksperimént)
Spanish: experimento mental m, experimento pensado
Swedish: tankeexperiment (sv) n

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