Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual. — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
“History cannot be logically constructed any more than a scientific event, if only because it involves the process of vague and indefinable concepts which… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state. — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
“Once a structurally complete and closed system of opinions consisting of many details and relations has been formed, it offers enduring resistance to anything… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge. — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
