Historical Evolution of Knowledge: Interpretation of Truth in Postmodernism

Tetiana Koberska (), Tetiana Panfilova (), Olha Kryhina (), Jia Ren () and Vasyl Zinkevych ()
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Tetiana Koberska: National University of Water Management and Nature Resources Use, Rivne, Ukraine
Tetiana Panfilova: Lviv Regional Institute of Public Administration of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine
Olha Kryhina: Mariupol State University, Mariupol, Ukraine
Jia Ren: National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv Ukraine
Vasyl Zinkevych: Drogobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, Drogobych, Ukraine

Postmodern Openings, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1Sup1, 215-227

Abstract: Changes in society lead to changes in science, changing its fundamental foundations - ideological and value, methodological and instrumental foundations. In turn, a change in the scientific paradigm leads to social change. A situation of this kind is especially evident in the socio-political sciences, since it is they who are more affected by social reality. The nature of postmodern societies is such that its economic component generates a huge number of subcultures, in the scientific world it is called "subcultural explosion." Postmodern societies are societies of permanent changes: consumer standards, moral values, political structure, and so on, repeatedly change during the life of one generation, significantly affect the search for the truth of science and its understanding. In the list of various questions of truth, its character, origin, postmodern departs from objective truth, therefore it becomes contextual and consensus. Theories are replaced by approaches, views, points of view, thoughts. Scientific concepts with their strict certainty change concepts, in which under the same name everyone puts their own meaning and essence. According to this, in postmodernism, not only the scientific paradigm as a model of scientific activity is changing, but the purpose of science, its understanding as a special activity with the search for truth, is changing. This implies a review of the attitude to the "organizational forms" of science, that is, the way in which scientific knowledge is disseminated to the professional scientific community to search for truth, which in its classical understanding no longer exists.

Keywords: knowledge; truth; postmodernism; historical; postmodern society (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 I2 O0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.18662/po/12.1Sup1/280

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