Gedankenexperiment
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 thought experiment
"So here's a gedankenexperiment for ya: what if the DC and Marvel put all their funnybooks on the Web two months after they were shipped to the stores?"
Example
More examples"So here's a gedankenexperiment for ya: what if the DC and Marvel put all their funnybooks on the Web two months after they were shipped to the stores?"
Etymology
From German Gedankenexperiment (“thought experiment”), from Gedanke (“thought”) + Experiment (“experiment”).
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