Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Istina-Truth and Pravda-Truth: Alienating and Assimilating Knowledge

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Istina-Truth and Pravda-Truth: Alienating and Assimilating Knowledge

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2013 6 (3)
Authors: Zhukovsky, Vladimir I.; Pivovarov, Daniil V.
Contact information: Zhukovsky, Vladimir I.: Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia; e-mail: ; Pivovarov, Daniil V.: Ural Federal University named after B.N. Yeltsin, 51 Lenina, Ekaterinburg, 620083 Russia;
Keywords: istina-truth; pravda-truth; alienating cognition; assimilating cognition; epistemic truth; existential truth
Abstract: The authors aim to determine the differences between the categories of istina-truth and pravda-truth. It is shown in this article that istina-truth and pravda-truth are differently bound with each other, and contradictions between them are frequent. It is proposed to apply in gnosiology such new concepts, as “alienating cognition” and “assimilating cognition”, “epistemic truth” and “existential truth”. Technical and natural-science cognition are examples of knowledge with a dominant of the alienating beginning. On the contrary, religious and philosophical cognition – are mainly “assimilating cognition”; they are interfaced not so much with the search of epistemic truth, but, first and foremost, they try to find the ontological truth of life.
Pages: 334-345
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/9622