What Mach Calls A Thought Experiment Is

I Once Knew An Otherwise Excellent Teacher Who Compelled His Students To Perform All Their Demonstrations With Incorrect Figures, On The Theory That It Was The Logical Connection Of The Concepts, Not The Figure, That Was Essential.

A Movement That We Will To Execute Is Never More Than A Represented Movement, And Appears In A Different Domain From That Of The Executed Movement, Which Always Takes Place When The Image Is Vivid Enough.

Bodies Do Not Produce Sensations, But Complexes Of Elements (complexes Of Sensations) Make Up Bodies.

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

The Fact Is, Every Thinker, Every Philosopher, The Moment He Is Forced To Abandon His One-sided Intellectual Occupation By Practical Necessity, Immediately Returns To The General Point Of View Of Mankind.