Abstract
The paper positions the idea that in any empirical study, along with its ontological essence of the identification of the factors of reality, there is also an epistemological foundation that forms a theoretical platform at the beginning of the study and is enriched in the course of its implementation and completion. The article describes interaction of the theory of knowledge and applied research through revealing the essence of three epistemological aspects that always accompany the study of the problem posed: the paradigms used, new concepts and meanings as well as classified features. The argumentation of the positioned interpretations is given from an empirical study of works written by individual authors and writing teams on a number of issues. These are food production, determination of the factors influencing this process, including production optimization calculations; functional enrichment of rural areas of old-developed regions based on the development of tourism. The conducted empirical studies to a certain extent also contribute to the accumulation of theoretical knowledge of an epistemological nature.
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