The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance. — 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 also provides the special 'carrier' for the historical development of any field of thought, as well… — 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
