Abstract

Problems play a crucial role in science. However, to correctly understand this role, it is necessary to have an adequate model of scientific knowledge. Here we use the most advanced and complete model called the modal stratified bond model of comprehensive knowledge systems. According to this model, problems are a specific kind of knowledge called erotetic knowledge generating the extensive erotetic system (modality) of scientific knowledge. Here we give a brief exposition of this system analyzing properties and aspects with the aim to determine the best form of problem description.

Highlights

  • To properly figure out the place and role of problems in science, it is necessary to use a scientific/mathematical model of the system of scientific knowledge

  • We are mostly interested in problems in and related to information science as representatives of a special type of knowledge, which called erotetic knowledge

  • This image was formalized and studied in the standard model of a scientific theory, which utilized the logical dimension to represent a scientific theory as a system of propositions

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Summary

Introduction

To properly figure out the place and role of problems in science, it is necessary to use a scientific/mathematical model of the system of scientific knowledge. The most widespread image of scientific knowledge that people have is a collection of statements about studied objects, processes and phenomena This image was formalized and studied in the standard model ( called the positivist model) of a scientific theory, which utilized the logical dimension to represent a scientific theory as a system of propositions (cf., for example, [1,2]). The further development of the structure-nominative model of a scientific theory brought forth the most advanced is the modal stratified bond model of comprehensive knowledge systems, which encompasses the structure-nominative model and provides a nine-dimensional knowledge representation [8].

Erotetic Systems as Intrinsic Components of Comprehensive Knowledge Systems
The productive level
Problem Structure and Its Presentation

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