Thinking is a sociable collective activity that transforms thinker and interlocutors

Evidence

I designate as the content—the materials, so to speak—of sociation everything that is present in individuals (the immediately concrete loci of all historical reality)—drive, interest, purpose, inclination, psychic state, movement—everything that is present in them in such a way as to engender or mediate effects upon others or to receive such effects. In themselves, these materials which fill life, these motivations which propel it, are not social. Strictly speaking, neither hunger nor love, work nor religiosity, technology nor the functions and results of intelligence, are social. They are factors in sociation only when they transform the mere aggregation of isolated individuals into specific forms of being with and for one another, forms that are subsumed under the general concept of interaction. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Collaborative thought is qualitatively different from individual writing and critical-dialogical engagement deepens understanding — Collective Writing: The Continuous Struggle for Meaning-Making; Articulating thoughts leads to self-discovery and meaning. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 831; Social consensus precedes individual competence in judgment — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 268 (+3 more)

Related

• Collaborative thought is qualitatively different from individual writing and critical-dialogical engagement deepens understanding (similarity 0.85)
• Collective intellectual work requires respectful dialogic engagement to manage conflicting perspectives (similarity 0.85)
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction (similarity 0.85)
• True thinking requires an internal dialogue among conflicting viewpoints. (similarity 0.81)
• Social orders integrate at the level of attributed motives (similarity 0.80)
• Human sociality is one possibility among several, not the only lens on experience (similarity 0.79)
• Social movements generate theory rather than merely applying it (similarity 0.79)
• Any social group can act as individual or aggregate depending on its relational frame. (similarity 0.79)
• Dialogic interactions create open, critical, constructive spaces for negotiating differing ideas toward consensus (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Collective intellectual work requires respectful dialogic engagement to manage conflicting perspectives #corroborates (0.85)
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194
• Articulating thoughts leads to self-discovery and meaning. #complicates (0.75) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 831
• Social consensus precedes individual competence in judgment #corroborates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 268