Text as an Element of Integrative Scientific Space

Abstract

The article accentuates the importance of flexible scientific approaches, the use of which is caused by the anthropocentric paradigm and the revival of the holistic view on the world. The aim of the article is to describe a fictional text as an element of integrative scientific space, formed by a number of opposite key concepts, which are, however contrary they are, turn to have much in common: science vs. arts, scientific truth vs. artistic truth, scientific worldview vs. artistic worldview, scientific cognition vs. perceptual cognition, scientific information vs. aesthetic information. The research is done on the text of the essay with the use of hypothetico-deductive method, comparative method, as well as methods of contextological and lingvo-stylistic analysis. As the results of the research show, the border-lines between the concepts compared are flexible. The same flexibility is demonstrated by the text of the essay, whose syncretic nature is determined by the combination of the distinctive features of scientific style and belles-lettres style. Those style manifestations reflect the author’s appeal to both ratio and emotio, thus proving these two spheres to be inseparably linked.

Keywords

• художественный текст
• эссе
• наука
• искусство
• познание
• истина
• оппозиция
• антропоориентированная наука
• гибкие вероятностные подходы