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In the process of the development of modern science, researchers have obtained a large number of results, which make their own unique contribution to the formation of scientific knowledge. After F. Bacon, it is generally accepted that the scientific result or scientific knowledge, first of all, indicates knowledge obtained in an experiment or empirically. At the same time, as the history of science shows, experiments, as a rule, were not set up and carried out randomly, but were mainly conditioned by hypotheses formulated by great scientists in the process of their thinking on a special kind of being. In this regard, without denying the importance of an experiment in the process of scientific knowledge, we will formulate the following problem: does scientific knowledge arise in an experiment or is an experiment only a means of manifestation of a hypothetical idea of the general content of a special kind of being that has already arisen in thinking? Answering this question, we come to the conclusion that scientific knowledge constantly passes through аbstrаct, dialectical and speculative moments of a completely reasonable logical method of thinking. These moments of thinking are necessary prerequisite and condition for the emergence of scientific knowledge. Thus, it is revealed that scientific knowledge does not arise in the experiment itself, but is comprehended as such through repeated passage of moments of thinking.