They are often designed by construction to trigger intuitive judgments based on scenarios so far from actual experience that those judgments are rendered highly untrustworthy.
Agreed; however it’s important to distinguish between this sort of appeal-to-intuition and the more rigorous sort of thought experiment that appeals to reasoning (e.g. Einstein’s famous Gedankenexperimente).
Agreed; however it’s important to distinguish between this sort of appeal-to-intuition and the more rigorous sort of thought experiment that appeals to reasoning (e.g. Einstein’s famous Gedankenexperimente).