So, let's do a thought experiment.

让我们做一个思维的实验。

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And Hume imagines a thought experiment.

休谟想象出来一个思维实验。

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They concocted a thought experiment for their proof.

他们构造了一个思想实验证明这一点。

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As Heidegger points out in this passage, that's a thought experiment which, if it can be done at all, derives from that prior knowledge.

海德格尔在文章中指出，这个思想实验，在可以实现的前提下，来源于之前的知识。

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So, let's do a thought experiment.

让我们做一个思维的实验。

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But the state of nature, for him, is rather a kind of thought experiment after the manner of experimental science.

但是对他来说，自然状态，是一种思想的实验,这是在科学实验之后。

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Suppose, as a thought experiment, that he had looked like a Max Planck or a Niels Bohr.

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At this point, it's as much a thought experiment as an attempt to create a usable tool.

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In this experiment, which was originally a thought experiment but has recently been conducted, time seems to run backward.

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