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One of the questions which the scientific community faces is how to integrate social and cognitive aspects of scientific practice. To answer this question it is necessary to find out the basic epistemological positions concerning the purposes of scientific research. The article shows that, while discussing the purposes of scientific research, we explicitly or implicitly accept four epistemological theses, each of which can be challenged. Although even in this case we will any way have a set of similar or alternative epistemological basic positions which are significantly similar. Some of them will pertain to an entity which is called science, and which, as any entity, has its own purpose.