The nature of science, its conditioning factors, and its boundaries with everyday experience, mythology, art, morality, and religion are explored in this volume. The authors, Viktor Ilyin and Anatoli Kalinkin, investigate the criteria that define scientificity, tracing the origin of science from pre-scientific knowledge to modern scientific rationality. They categorise different types of knowledge and offer a unique perspective on the evolution of science as an independent, dynamic system governed by its own laws. This comprehensive analysis marks a pioneering effort in understanding science as a distinct form of conceptualising reality. Both Ilyin and Kalinkin, noted philosophers from Moscow University, contribute significant research in epistemology and logic.

Many thanks to Daniel Baker for the original scans.

Note: Scan quality is poor. Pages are warped and have parts which are not readable. A better scan is on the way.

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