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Definitions and Counter-examples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

James Cargile
James Cargile
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University of Virginia
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In his paper ‘A Function for Thought Experiments’, T. S. Kuhn asks: Ought we demand of our concepts, as we do of our laws and theories, that they be applicable to any and every situation that might conceivably arise in any possible world? Is it not sufficient to demand of a concept, as we do of a law or theory, that it be unequivocally applicable in every situation which we expect ever to encounter?

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Philosophy , Volume 62 , Issue 240 , April 1987 , pp. 179 - 193
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1987

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1 T. S., Kuhn, ‘A Function for Thought Experiments’, in Hacking (ed.), Scientific Revolutions (Oxford University Press, 1981).Google Scholar