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The Scientific Knowledge and its Structure
Authors: Sergey A. Lebedev
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The article reveals the complex structure of modern scientific knowledge. It consists of blocks and elements of scientific knowledge of different size and character, often opposite in their methodological characteristics. This is, firstly, qualitatively different in their subjects and methods of scientific knowledge: mathematics and logic, natural Sciences, social Sciences, Humanities, technical and technological knowledge. Secondly, different levels of scientific knowledge: sensory, empirical, theoretical and metatheoretical. Finally, it is qualitatively different kinds of knowledge: prior and inferential, descriptive and normative, explicit and implicit, discourse and intuitive, analytic and synthetic. It is rich in the structural difference of scientific knowledge must be constantly borne in mind when discussing various common problems of philosophy and methodology of science: scientific knowledge, scientific truth and its criteria, justification of scientific knowledge, dynamics and development of scientific knowledge, scientific-cognitive activity. The fact is that due to the qualitative difference of scientific knowledge there is no single way to solve these problems for various structural units of scientific knowledge. Methodological truth is as specific as all other kinds of truths.