Constructivism and Realism

Abstract

The article deals with the role of models in the scientific research of those objects that go beyond the limits of perceptive observability. The types of representations is analyzed, the distinction between subjects and sources of scientific models is made. The author discusses the question of the relation between the model and the scientific picture of the world and the question of ontological reliability of modeling. The idea of “Third” L. Wittgenstein on the “hinges” are used. This idea claims that many human practices and associated discourses “turn” (like the doors turn) on the certain unmoving “hinges”. The author suggests that such “hinges” of the scientific discourse are the “matter of fact” propositions.