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Experiment: artificial bringing about of an event or artificial creation of a state for testing a hypothesis. Experiments can lead to the reformulation of the initial hypotheses and the reformulation of theories. See also theories, measuring, science, hypotheses, Bayesianism, confirmation, events, paradigm change, reference systems.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Peter Singer on Experiments - Dictionary of Arguments

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Experiments/Animal experiments/P. Singer: Whether experiments with animals can be justified should not be judged by absolute standards. It is a false question whether the dying of many people could be prevented by the suffering of a single animal. The question is simply too hypothetical. If, in a specific case, it were a matter of saving the lives of thousands of people by suffering several dozen animals, I would agree.
>Animals
, >Decisions, >Good, >Values.
Utilitarianism: if the benefits for humans are large enough and the suffering of animals is limited, the Utilitarian cannot basically say that animal experiments are wrong.
But this was also true for experiments with mentally handicapped orphans.
>Utilitarianism, cf. >Preferential utilitarianism.
Speciecism/Terminologie: = German Artenismus: Expression, originally by R. Ryder and later by R. Dawkins, for the attitude to treat members of species other than humans as objects.
>Speciecism.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

SingerP I
Peter Singer
Practical Ethics (Third Edition) Cambridge 2011

SingerP II
P. Singer
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. New Haven 2015


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