Top 4 Ludwik Fleck Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.
Ludwik Fleck
#3. 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
#4. 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
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
