Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (8)

Authors

Zhukovsky, Vladimir I.; Pivovarov, Daniil V.

Contact information

Zhukovsky, Vladimir I.:Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; Pivovarov, Daniil V.:Ural Federal University named after the B. N. Yeltsin 19 Mira Str., Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russia; E-mail:

Keywords

systemness and wholeness; the systems approach; a thing as a metasystem; the holistic approach; epistemic truth of knowledge about the wholeness of things and logical correctness of systematic knowledge about any fragment of some object

Abstract

The systems approach emerged mainly in natural science as an expression of scientists’ naive belief that the universe has a very simple and logical structure. Today, more and more philosophers rightly criticize this methodological ideal. The critics argue that, firstly, the systems principle in its most important aspects is alternative to the holistic principle; secondly, the holistic principle is much richer and more realistic than the systems principle. The whole not only includes the unimaginable number of systems, but also certainly always contains in its essence anti-systemic trends – forces aimed at changing or destruction of existing things and phenomena. Apparently, the system’s concept is associated not so much with the sign of epistemic truth, but with one of the rules of language games of philosophers, theologians and scientists

Pages

1569-1575

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/19725

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