Polydeterminism as a methodological principle analysis of premise scientific Knowledge

The goal of the paper is an analysis of the process of revealing multiple socio-cultural factors of scientific cognition, and explication of their research methodology. In this context, as a rough draft a principle of polydeterminism is grounded. In short it sums up the knowledge of complex structure of determination of science that has been obtain during a long time, and converts it into a certain cognitive attitude - an approach to analyzing the nature of science from a position of multiplicity of its determination. A principle of polydeterminism is also heuristic producing a backward effect - determination of society, culture, and history by science. Vectors of this determination are multidirectional, and aftereffects cannot be predicted.

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