Brief outline of a history of the geneticmethod in the development of the deductive sciences

Abstract

As is well known, the axiomatic method is in general predominant in deductive knowledge. It is less known, however, that apart from the axiomatic method another appeared quite long ago called the “genetic method” in the methodology of the deductive sciences. The genetic approach accompanied the use and development of the deductiveaxiomatic method for centuries. It did not compete with the axiomatic method, which can be explained by the epistemological fruitfulness of axiomatization always containing a certain heuristic potential.