Who do you think is the most synthetic thinker in the history of thought?

Answer 1

Synthetic thinking is what separates definitively humans from other thinking species. Synthetic thought process is the fourth stage in human cognitive development.

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/piaget.html

"Stages of Cognitive Development. Piaget identified four stages in cognitive development:

Sensorimotor stage (Infancy). In this period (which has 6 stages), intelligence is demonstrated through motor activity without the use of symbols. Knowledge of the world is limited (but developing) because its based on physical interactions / experiences. Children acquire object permanence at about 7 months of age (memory). Physical development (mobility) allows the child to begin developing new intellectual abilities. Some symbollic (language) abilities are developed at the end of this stage.

Pre-operational stage (Toddler and Early Childhood). In this period (which has two substages), intelligence is demonstrated through the use of symbols, language use matures, and memory and imagination are developed, but thinking is done in a nonlogical, nonreversable manner. Egocentric thinking predominates

Concrete operational stage (Elementary and early adolescence). In this stage (characterized by 7 types of conservation: number, length, liquid, mass, weight, area, volume), intelligence is demonstrated through logical and systematic manipulation of symbols related to concrete objects. Operational thinking develops (mental actions that are reversible). Egocentric thought diminishes.

Formal operational stage (Adolescence and adulthood). In this stage, intelligence is demonstrated through the logical use of symbols related to abstract concepts. Early in the period there is a return to egocentric thought. Only 35% of high school graduates in industrialized countries obtain formal operations; many people do not think formally during adulthood. "

I could not possibly say who is the MOST productive, but Bertrand Russel, Karl Marx and GWF Hegel certainly stand out in my mind....Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Fritz Perls (F.S. Perls) and of course most of the pops, http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/index.htm

Answer 2

In reality the history of thought is to complex for one who believes thought is an independent act.

Answer 3

Albert Einstein.

Answer 4

George Bush... although to use the word thinker in any way to describe him is kind wrong. Pax - C

Answer 5

your question is contradicting all humans think with the collective mind of things that have been explored and study before us
no one man can take credit for his great thoughts.