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Brown, James Robert and Yiftach Fehige, "Thought Experiments", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2023/entries/thought-experiment/>.The citation immediately above refers to the version in the following archive edition:
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- Fall 1997 (first archived) [author: Brown, James R.]
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@InCollection{sep-thought-experiment,
author = {Brown, James Robert and Fehige, Yiftach},
title = {{Thought Experiments}},
booktitle = {The {Stanford} Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
editor = {Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman},
howpublished = {\url{https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2023/entries/thought-experiment/}},
year = {2023},
edition = {{W}inter 2023},
publisher = {Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}
}