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135

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Cover of: Wittgenstein'in Bocegi
Wittgenstein'in Bocegi
Oct 29, 2014, Aylak Kitap
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Cover of: Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Cover of: Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
in English
Cover of: Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
2008, Wiley & Sons, Limited, John
in English
Cover of: Wittgenstein's beetle and other classic thought experiments
Wittgenstein's beetle and other classic thought experiments
2005, Blackwell Pub., Wiley-Blackwell
in English
Cover of: Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
October 1, 2004, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Cover of: Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
October 1, 2004, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Cover of: WITTGENSTEIN'S BEETLE AND OTHER CLASSIC THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS.
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Table of Contents

A is for Alice and astronomers arguing about acceleration in a hole through the earth
B is for Bernard's body-exchange machine
C is for the Catholic cannibal
D is for Maxwell's demon
E is for evolution (and an embarrassing problem with it)
F is for the forms lost forever to the prisoners in the cave
G is for Galileo's gravitational balls
H is for Hume's shades
I is for the identity of indiscernibles
J is for Henri Poincaré and alternative geometries
K is for the Kritik and Kant's kind of thought experiments
L is for Lucretius' spear
M is for Mach's motionless chain
N is for Newton's bucket
O is for Olbers' paradox
P is for Parfit's person
Q is for the questions raised by thought experiments quotidiennes
R is for the rule-ruled room
S is for Salvatius' ship, proceeding serenely along its own space-time line
T is for the time-travelling twins
U is for the universe, and Einstein's attempts to understand it
V is for the vexed case of the needy violinist
W is for Wittgenstein's beetle
X is for xenophanes and thinking by examples
Y is for counterfactuals and a backwards approach to history
Z is for Zeno and the mysteries of infinity

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Malden, MA

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Library of Congress
BD265 .C64 2005, BD265.C64 2004, BD265 .C64 2004

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Pagination
ix, 135 p. :
Number of pages
135

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OL17139265M
Internet Archive
wittgensteinsbee00cohe
ISBN 10
1405121912, 1405121920
LCCN
2004010916
Library Thing
260902
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264479

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