I see it as less of a paradox and more as a counterintuitive claim. I first encountered a similar idea myself through discussions of "memory." In cultural anthropology (cf. Halbwachs, Assmann) some thinkers claim that (cultural) memory is social and cannot exist in an isolated individual.
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I see it as less of a paradox and more as a counterintuitive claim. I first encountered a similar idea myself through discussions of "memory." In cultural anthropology (cf. Halbwachs, Assmann) some thinkers claim that (cultural) memory is social and cannot exist in an isolated individual.