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thought experiment comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
theory related concept	abstraction
thought experiment	theory related concept	An experiment that cannot be or is not carried out in practice, but can, given sufficient imagination and rigor, be reasoned through by thought and intuition alone.

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