How to Understand Thought Experiments

Abstract

Before we reason Kuhn's view at the thought experiments, it is necessary to describe his philosophy of science, which was presented in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The act of treating science in the right perspective explains the actual value and role of thought experiments. Thoughts experiments are a constituent part of the origin of the theory or at the last of its “early age”. This ingenious and in some sense simple inventions are inweaved in the essence of scientific activity, so they tell us pretty much about it.