Volume 43 (1988), 3

In the paper mutual determination and mediation of the empirical and theoretical as two inevitable parts, two reciprocally linked phases of the reproduction cycle of scientific konwledge are analyzed. The empirical component grows out of the practice, it takes over its objective content from practice and is permanently mediated through theoretical knowledge and… Read more

The paper resumes the problems in the work Dialectical Negation (8) and applies dialectical contradiction to systems with in-puts and out-puts, to such systems in which there are contradictions in the in-puts and out-puts, in which there are contradictions in the in-outs or in the out-puts only, and in which there are not contradictions either in the in-puts or in… Read more

In the paper the problem of the rise and development of general-scientific categories in scientific cognition is set up. They make up a system-formative component of the developing general-scientific approaches at present such as: systems approach, modelling, mathematization, formalization, information theory, etc. They are characterized as fundamental concepts of… Read more

In the paper the author documents that causality problems were known in the philosophy of the Antique. They were further developed in the relational thinking of the New Age. There cause-effect chains were widely used, though within the framework of the given whole, thing. External influence (cause) was not important enough working for this conception. Such factors… Read more

The paper yields a historian’s outline of well-known conceptions of the origin of life on the Earth (from creationist ideas over various forms of naive abiogenesis and eternism as far as the theory of evolutionary abiogenesis). The authors reflect also the contemporary interpretation of Oparin-Darwin’s theory and the pose questions of experimental support and or… Read more