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by qqq 6465 days ago
Some famous physics experiments were thought of before it was possible to execute them. Worthless?

Also how do you execute Socrates' ideas in Euthyphro? Or are those worthless?

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There was always an execution. It just happens to not have been the experiment. The reason we know about those ideas is that somebody put a significant amount of effort into telling the world.
I stand corrected