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Ludwik Fleck
“Whatever is known has always seemed systematic, proven, applicable, and evident to the knower. Every alien system of knowledge has likewise seemed contradictory, unproven, inapplicable, fanciful, or mystical. May not the time have come to assume a less egocentric, more general point of view and to speak of comparative epistemology?”
Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

Ludwik Fleck
“The explanation given to any relation can survive and develop within a given society only if this explanation is stylized in conformity with the prevailing thought style.”
Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

Ludwik Fleck
“Biology taught me that a field undergoing development should be investigated always from the viewpoint of its past development. Who today would study anatomy without embryology? In exactly the same way epistemology without historical and comparative investigations is no more than an empty play on words or an epistemology of the imagination.”
Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

Ludwik Fleck
“Discovery is thus inextricably interwoven with what is known as error. To recognize a certain relation, many another relation must be misunderstood, denied, or overlooked. The operation of cognition [Erkenntnisphysiologie] is analogous to the physiology of movement. To move a limb, an entire so-called myostatic system must be immobilized to provide a basis of fixation. Every movement consists of two active processes; namely, motion and inhibition. The corresponding features in the operation of cognition are purposive, directed determination and cooperative abstraction, which complement one another.”
Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

Ludwik Fleck
“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, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

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