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gedanken

How to use gedanken in a sentence. Live example sentences for gedanken pulled from indexed public discussions.

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Here's a little gedanken experiment: put a drop of dye in the solution and let it diffuse.

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Quick take

Here's a little gedanken experiment: put a drop of dye in the solution and let it diffuse.

Example sentences

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Here's a little gedanken experiment: put a drop of dye in the solution and let it diffuse.

2

Die Gedanken sind frei demonstrates that people been fighting for freedom of speech since the middle ages.

3

Die Gedanken sind frei is older and more fundamental than the right to criticize the government.

4

Always inventing something in my mind or doing some gedanken or other.

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Like I said, space elevators are a fun little toy gedanken for people who just want to think about The Amazing Future.

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Here is a gedanken experiment to test if an AI has any intelligence: until the machine starts to determine and resolve contradictions in its own outputs w/o human help, one can sleep tight.

7

When reading about accessibility of research papers, I am always reminded of the Die Gedanken Sind Frei talk by Eben Moglen, and later how black slaves were forbidden by law to learn reading and writing.

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Stallman has excellent skills in seeing problems in software before they get noticed by everyone else, but when I want to introduce someone to the philosophy of free software I would rather put on a talk like Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media from 2012 or the now 11 year old talk Die Gedanken Sind Frei from 2004.

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While space elevators make for a fun toy gedanken for space enthusiasts who don't have an engineering background, they will never happen for one primary reason: As soon as you have a material out of which you can build a space elevator, you have a material to make extremely lightweight filament-wound pressure vessels.

Quote examples

1

Especially if the algorithm is well known, I don't see any injustice here - "Die Gedanken sind frei".

2

A little more gedanken, if a monopole is massless, it might behave a bit like a photon and be very difficult to "find" in any particular location.

3

His talk titled "Die Gedanken Sind Frei"[1] really strengthened my convictions in favor of free software.

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I agree wholeheartedly, as Eben Moglen succintly put it in Die Gedanken Sind Frei: "The revolution runs on working code".

Proper noun examples

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It should be called the Fing-long-er Gedanken.

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How do you use gedanken in a sentence?

Here's a little gedanken experiment: put a drop of dye in the solution and let it diffuse.