Then the thought experiment is a useful negative result telling us we need something more comprehensive.
Paradigms also outline which negative results are merely noise :P I know it’s not nice to pick on people, but look at the negative utilitarians. They’re perfectly nice people, they just kept looking for The Answer until they found something they could see no refutation of, and look where that got them.
I’m not absolutely against thought experiments, but I think that high-energy philosophy as a research methodology is deeply flawed.
Paradigms also outline which negative results are merely noise :P I know it’s not nice to pick on people, but look at the negative utilitarians. They’re perfectly nice people, they just kept looking for The Answer until they found something they could see no refutation of, and look where that got them.
I’m not absolutely against thought experiments, but I think that high-energy philosophy as a research methodology is deeply flawed.