Collective reason

roots of a sociological theory of knowledge

pp. 25-38

in: J. C. Nyíri, Tradition and individuality, Berlin, Springer, 1992

Abstract

Now holism and sociologism are of course different perspectives: Neurath's precursors Mach, Poincare and Duhem were holists, but were more or less oblivious to the social nature of science.³