Socio-humanitarian knowledge: specificity or knowledge of foreign nature?

Abstract

Specificity of socio-humanitarian knowledge which by now acquires new (scientometric) di­mensions has been presented here as the problem under discussion. Recognizing due polemic overstatements, the author, nevertheless, tries to argue, that the difference between natural sciences and socio-cultural knowledge by no means could be reduced to the so-called specificity, but rather should be bestowed the name “knowledge of foreign nature” due to the principal ontological differences of natural and sociocultural worlds. In contrast to the former, he latter obviously has constitutive meaningful dimension. It has also been demonstrated, that this point of view can be clearly traced back to the European philosophi­cal traditions of XIX−XX centuries.