Categories: Comparisons
An example of an analogy used by a scientist:
"If the individual may be compared to a soccer player and the thought collective [e.g. group of scientists engaged in dialogue] to the soccer team trained for cooperation, the cognition would be the progress of the game. Can an adequate report of this progress be made by examining the individual kicks one by one? The whole game would lose its meaning completely."
Ludwik Fleck
Fleck, L. (1979). Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact [Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache. Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv] (F. Bradley & T. J. Trenn, Trans.; T. J. Trenn & R. K. Merton, Eds.). The University of Chicago Press. (1935)
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