``Platonic thought experiments: how on earth?

DOI10.1007/S11229-011-0008-4MaRDI QIDQ383053zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rafal Urbaniak

Publication date 25 November 2013

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-0008-4

zbMATH Keywords

adaptive logicsAristotleentrenchmentGalileonon-defeated consequencePlatonic thought experimentsPlatonismprioritized consequencethought experiments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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