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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 as for the given stock of knowledge and level of culture. This we have designated thought style.

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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.

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The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

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Certainty, simplicity, vividness originate in popular knowledge. That is where the expert obtains his faith in this triad as the ideal of knowledge. Therein lies the general epistemological significance of popular science.

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Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

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Ludwik Fleck

Ludwik Fleck

Born: July 11, 1896
Died: June 5, 1961 (aged 64)
Bio: Ludwik Fleck was a Polish and Israeli physician and biologist who did important work in epidemic typhus in Lwów, Poland, with Rudolf Weigl and in the 1930s developed the concept of the "Denkkollektiv".

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