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thought-experiments

chrislemke/stoffy

Design, analyze, and evaluate philosophical thought experiments. Use when: creating new thought experiments to probe specific intuitions, analyzing existing thought experiments for hidden assumptions, generating variants that isolate different variables, stress-testing philosophical positions through scenarios, exploring edge cases. Triggers: 'thought experiment', 'imagine', 'suppose', 'hypothetical', 'what if scenario', 'intuition pump', 'trolley problem', 'zombie', 'Mary's room', 'Chinese room', 'experience machine', 'teletransportation', 'original position', 'veil of ignorance', 'Gettier case'.

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Installation

$npx skills add https://github.com/chrislemke/stoffy --skill thought-experiments

SKILL.md

Master the art of designing, analyzing, and deploying philosophical thought experiments—the laboratories of the imagination.

Etymology: German Gedankenexperiment (thought experiment)—originally used in physics (Galileo, Einstein) before becoming central to philosophy.

SCENARIO A clear, precisely specified situation with explicit stipulations.

Design, analyze, and evaluate philosophical thought experiments. Use when: creating new thought experiments to probe specific intuitions, analyzing existing thought experiments for hidden assumptions, generating variants that isolate different variables, stress-testing philosophical positions through scenarios, exploring edge cases. Triggers: 'thought experiment', 'imagine', 'suppose', 'hypothetical', 'what if scenario', 'intuition pump', 'trolley problem', 'zombie', 'Mary's room', 'Chinese room', 'experience machine', 'teletransportation', 'original position', 'veil of ignorance', 'Gettier case'. Source: chrislemke/stoffy.

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npx skills add https://github.com/chrislemke/stoffy --skill thought-experiments
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What is thought-experiments?

Design, analyze, and evaluate philosophical thought experiments. Use when: creating new thought experiments to probe specific intuitions, analyzing existing thought experiments for hidden assumptions, generating variants that isolate different variables, stress-testing philosophical positions through scenarios, exploring edge cases. Triggers: 'thought experiment', 'imagine', 'suppose', 'hypothetical', 'what if scenario', 'intuition pump', 'trolley problem', 'zombie', 'Mary's room', 'Chinese room', 'experience machine', 'teletransportation', 'original position', 'veil of ignorance', 'Gettier case'. Source: chrislemke/stoffy.

How do I install thought-experiments?

Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/chrislemke/stoffy --skill thought-experiments Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor

Where is the source repository?

https://github.com/chrislemke/stoffy