"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."

Source : Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.39, University of Chicago Press

Ludwik Fleck

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