The participants in the flashcard experiment thought they learned most when they studied a small stack of flashcards all on one day.

在抽认卡片这一实验组中的参与者原来认为他们一天学习一小叠抽认卡片时，他们学到的词汇会更多。

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How would we behave in this kind of thought experiment?

在这种思维实验中我们会怎么做？

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So then we get to this famous thought experiment.

接下来我们就得到了这个著名的思想实验。

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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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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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And just as in the thought experiment I just gave you, the University of Minnesota students acted in the same way.

如同上一个实验，该大学学生表现得一样。

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Here's a thought experiment about thought experiments.

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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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Obviously, none of these outcomes are likely and this is a mere thought experiment.

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