A thought experiment might also be used to test the hypothesis as well.

At this point, I would like to try a thought experiment on you.

First, isn't my thought experiment too simple to tell us anything about the real world?

The best way to understand this paradox is to work through a thought experiment.

A thought experiment is one you carry out in your head.

One example given in the book is the following thought experiment.

She tries to make the people and objects in her thought experiments move around.

So those are my two answers to your thought experiment.

Let us try to do this by a thought experiment.

So as a thought experiment, we tried to write what that might sound like.