SCIENCE IN SUPERPOSITION. TOWARDS A COMMUNICATIVE SEMANTICS OF THE CONCEPT OF SCIENCE
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https://doi.org/10.5840/eps202461452Keywords:
science as a communicative system, rheosemantics, communicative dimensions, concept of scienceAbstract
The article raises the problem of the ambiguity and polysemantic nature of the complex and heterogeneous semantics of the concept of science. This concept includes theories and methods, models and classifications of reality, scientific laws and laws of nature, scientific thinking, scientific publications, experiments and laboratory activities, scientific institutes and research teams, scientific research, expertise and scientific disciplines, scientific knowledge and scientific truth, etc. Nevertheless, with all the above-mentioned complexity, science exhibits the properties of a single, dynamically developing complex phenomenon and, accordingly, requires an appropriate interdisciplinary, complex definition that is sensitive to its fundamental contexts: thematic, social, and temporal.
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