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work_vgzdaamcqzeqtddougnuhv6ohe	James W. McAllister	Thought Experiments and the Belief in Phenomena	2004	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5032	293	46	Thought experiment acquires evidential significance only on particular metaphysical physics and other disciplines, but not in sciences that emphasize variety and contingency, such as Aristotelian natural philosophy and some forms of historiography. assume that thought experiments in science possess evidential significance In response to this problem, Galileo proposed that evidential significance in mechanics be withdrawn from observations of natural occurrences, and vested in new sources of evidence that, he believed, were better I suggest that Galileo devised thought experiment as a source of evidence about phenomena for use where all feasible concrete experiments did Galileo resort to thought experiment in the study of free fall? In Galileo's terms, such concrete experiments fail to display the phenomenon "free fall" in accident-free form. He holds that Galileo's thought experiment on free fall self-evidently Let us return to Galileo's thought experiment on free fall. Against his thought experiment on free fall, for example,	./cache/work_vgzdaamcqzeqtddougnuhv6ohe.pdf	./txt/work_vgzdaamcqzeqtddougnuhv6ohe.txt