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Joshua Knobe used the methods of a philosophical field named for this word to propose his "side effect effect." For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this word that follows "thought" in the name of hypothetical philosophical scenarios like the Chinese room and Schrödinger's cat.
ANSWER: experiments [accept word forms like experimental; accept thought experiments; accept experimental philosophy; accept gedankenexperiment; prompt on X-phil or X-philosophy by asking "what word does the X stand for?"]
[10h] A 2004 study led by the experimental philosopher Eduoard Machery concluded that, unlike Westerners, East Asians did not follow the causal-historical view of reference posited in this book that introduced "rigid designators."
ANSWER: Naming and Necessity (by Saul Kripke)
[10m] Machery's study used an example from Naming and Necessity concerning the hypothetical Schmidt discovering this logician's two incompleteness theorems.
ANSWER: Kurt Gödel ("GUR-tle") [or Kurt Friedrich Gödel]
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