THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA OF SCIENTIFIC PROOF
Stanislav Borisovich Bondarenko
Kursk State University, 33, Radishchev st., Kursk, 305000, Russia
Keywords: proof, science, goal, method, truth, community, methodology
Abstract
The article provides a philosophical and methodological study of the problem concerning the meaning of the idea of proof in scientific knowledge. Features of the development of the idea of scientific proof are described and explained; five stages of its development are marked out: naive, dualistic, normative, criterion-based and model ones. The explanation is produced why there are no absolute and a priori ideals of proof in science. A reference method for researching specific evidence is applied and a philosophical and methodological concept of a dynamic model of scientific evidence is put forward. A significant difference in the procedures of proof and justification is shown.
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