Talk:Thought collective

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 04:18, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Peer review

Hi Hank, I have attached my peer-review for your article in the space below. I ran your work through a spell-grammar check software and nothing showed up so my main evaluation will be of the material you wrote about. I think your work will benefit from more organization. You bring up a lot of interesting material in your writing, but the reader is overwhelmed with so much uncategorized information. I would divide your description of the text into first a section that overall just deals with the series of essays Fleck used to get his Thought Collective idea out into the open. By separating the idea from the text in this wiki page, you will allow for more richer contributions to both the ideology and the book, which cannot be mistaken as one. Second, I would create a new section called "What is a thought style?". The definition of a thought style is indispensable for your work, as without it I am left wondering how to conceptualize a 'Thought Collective'. A line or two about how Fleck classified his own contribution would be great. Other than that, I only one more change. I noticed you end your account of Fleck's book with the following paraphrase:

″Just as a soccer player makes little progress in a game without their interactions among a cooperating team, an individual researcher is lost without the thought collective that shapes their approach to scientific practice. Extending this analogy, ideas and concepts exchange between individuals in the thought collective like passes in a soccer match, each time gaining new directions and a change in momentum. With the greater collective and style of practice taken into account, scientific discoveries can be considered as communal social products influenced by the particular milieu that surrounds them. ″

I think this chunk of text is outside the Wikipedia mandate as you appear to be propagating your own argument instead of Fleck's. I would put this in your Wikipedia exhibit and replace this chunk of text with an intensive description of how Fleck gets the same point across to the readers. Best of luck! Sumervaid (talk) 20:20, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Merge this article into Ludwik Fleck and drop it.

In my opinion this article should be blended into the article Ludwik Fleck, which should be improved.

Then the article Thought collective should either be dropped or should redirect to Ludwik Fleck if it doesn't mention any other philosophers who use(d) the term as their own. If the article is maintained, a new article Thought style should also redirect to Ludwik Fleck as the main article. The reason is that the concepts of 'thought collective' and 'thought style' (i) are relating to nobody else but Fleck, and (ii) cannot be separated from each other.

Marc Schroeder (talk) 05:37, 22 July 2023 (UTC) Marc Schroeder (talk) 05:37, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

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