APRIORI KNOWLEDGE, LOGIC AND DEDUCTIVE TEORIES IN SCIENCE: ON RATIONAL JUSTIFICATION IN NATURAL SCIENCE
Valentin Nikonovich Karpovich
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Nikolaev st., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: наука, знание, рациональность, теория, основание, математика, естествознание, дедукция, объяснение, science, knowledge, rationality, theory, foundation, mathematics, science, deduction, explanation
Abstract
The paper considers and analyzes capacities of deductive organization for theoretical knowledge and revelation of its ultimate foundations. An analogy with the search of foundations of mathematics as it was realized by Frege’s logicism leads to the problem of foundation of theories in experimental natural science. The analysis shows that the analogy with mathematical theories implies a certain view of natural science when assumptions of specific basic primary truths are expected to exist in each scientific discipline.
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