I disagree. The real world has a fixed causal structure, and therefore, a certain fixed counterfactual structure. Thus, only some hypothetical situations are realistic. Thus, some “hypothetical” thought-experiments amount to asking, “What would you do if I fundamentally altered the rules of reality in the following ways?”.
Well you’ve created a contradiction there. You could imagine a rock having it’s mass doubled with respect to certain equations and it might still work. But to just double the mass with regard to everything will lead to a paradox.
I disagree. The real world has a fixed causal structure, and therefore, a certain fixed counterfactual structure. Thus, only some hypothetical situations are realistic. Thus, some “hypothetical” thought-experiments amount to asking, “What would you do if I fundamentally altered the rules of reality in the following ways?”.
I don’t suppose you could clarify what scenarios you consider to be unrealistic and invalid?
Suppose I doubled the mass of this rock while keeping all other things, including it’s volume and density, constant.
Well you’ve created a contradiction there. You could imagine a rock having it’s mass doubled with respect to certain equations and it might still work. But to just double the mass with regard to everything will lead to a paradox.