Estimation in the Process of Communication

Abstract

The article is devoted to examine of the peculiarity of using of the estimations in the processes of communication. The following main problem sare considered: the connection of evaluations with descriptions, the reduction of norms to evaluations, impossibility of logical transition from descriptive premises to evaluative conclusion (the “principle of Hume”), new basing of the idea about impossibility of logical transition from “is” to “ought”, the structure of purposing substantiation of estimations and its inductive character. It is affirmed that positivistic demand to exclude of any estimations from the language of social sciences is not realistic. More week idea of G. Mürdal aboutstrict separation of estimations from descriptions in social discussions also is nonrealistic.