Thought Experiment Is In Any Case A

Thing, Body, Matter, Are Nothing Apart From The Combinations Of The Elements, - The Colours, Sounds, And So Forth - Nothing Apart From Their So-called Attributes.

Man Is Pre-eminently Endowed With The Power Of Voluntarily And Consciously Determining His Own Point Of View.

The Plain Man Is Familiar With Blindness And Deafness, And Knows From His Everyday Experience That The Look Of Things Is Influenced By His Senses; But It Never Occurs To Him To Regard The Whole World As The Creation Of His Senses.

Many An Article That I Myself Penned Twenty Years Ago Impresses Me Now As Something Quite Foreign To Myself.

What Mach Calls A Thought Experiment Is Of Course Not An Experiment At All. At Bottom It Is A Grammatical Investigation.