Heuristic Potential Research Articles

Сомнительные основания (Peter F. The Grounds of Political Legitimacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)

The manuscript is a review of the monograph The Grounds of Political Legitimacy by Fabienne Peter, the French political philosopher. Following the suit of the modern Anglo-American analytical political philosophy, the author of the monograph offers a metanormative approach to the analysis of legitimacy, focused on identifying the types of obligation on which it can be built. Legitimacy is interpreted in the book as a normative property of a political decision, which makes it binding for both the authorities and citizens. Based on the analysis and synthesis of possible foundations of legitimacy postulated in the existing normative theories, Peter comes to the conclusion that a political decision is made legitimate by the presence of an accessible cognitive authority. At the same time, it can be legitimate in the absence of such authority, if it is backed by the will of the people. According to the reviewer, Peter’s reasoning is purely speculative, and the result is trivial. It remains unclear why such a theory is needed at all, and whether it has any heuristic potential. The facts presented in the study do not speak for themselves. All the empirical material in the article comes down to agitation for Brexit, vaccination during Covid-19, and the Trump administration’s decision on migration. Having considered a number of alternative sociological and politological approaches to the analysis of legitimacy, the reviewer shows that all of them are superior to Peter’s theory in heuristic terms. His general conclusion is that the value of this kind of analytical political philosophy as a methodology for political analysis is questionable, and therefore Peter’s book is hardly of interest to political science.

A Heurística de Polya para resolução de problemas e o ensino do Pensamento Computacional: um estudo com estudantes do 1º ano do Ensino Médio

This study sought to present Polya's Heuristics for problem solving as a possibility for developing Computational Thinking. This is a case study involving a first year high school class. The objective was to analyze the potential of inserting Polya's Heuristics in pedagogical practices aimed at teaching Computational Thinking. To this end, a mini-course was held where students were given problems solve. In the first meeting, the activities involved digital resources (plugged in), while in the second meeting they took place in an unplugged format. Textual Discourse Analysis was used to analyze the corpus, made up of the students' feedback and the researchers' observations, with the following emerging categories: Trial and Error, Elaboration of a Plan and Understanding the Problem. As a result, we observed that some students were able to solve the problems using a plan, while others used trial and error, which was more evident in activities that involved the use of computational resources, where the program validated the answers. The study showed that Polya's Heuristics, when inserted into pedagogical practices, has potential for teaching Computational Thinking, considering its epistemological relationships, similarities between the pillars of Computational Thinking and the principles of Polya's Heuristics, in addition to the reflective dimension that Heuristics proposes in solving problems, requiring an analysis of the resolution and not just the enumeration of a sequence of steps. This opens up possibilities for solving problems in different areas.

17 постпостмодернизмов: репрезентация социокультурной динамики в современных концепциях трансцендирования модерна

The article attempts to draw a cross-section of concepts claiming to explain the modern socio-cultural situation and united by the umbrella term “post-postmodernism”. In terms of content, most of these concepts are based on their position to previous modernization stages: transcending modernity options and postmodern crises solving. Therefore it can be considered in the context of theories of socio-cultural dynamics. It is shown that despite the insufficient degree of theoretical elaboration, the representation of some key structural elements of socio-cultural dynamics allows us to determine whether these concepts belong to key sociodynamic para-digms: evolutionism, civilizationism and the synergetic paradigm. The analysis perspective provides additional insight into the heuristic potential and further theoretical viability of these theoretical models to description of the state of the modern socio-cultural system. The most cited of them is metamodernism, which, despite the lack of a well-developed methodological framework, contains neocyclism elements and has the potential to develop an integrative approach to analyzing sociocultural dynamics based on its three key paradigms.

Is postmodernism outdated? On the relevance of the concept at the beginning of the 21st century

At the turn of the XX – XXI centuries, there is a certain "fatigue" in the humanities from the term "postmodern" / "postmodernism", various works appear summarizing and offering alternative concepts to describe modernity. The article attempts to analyze the arguments in favor of preserving or replacing the concept of "postmodernism", advanced by theorists, many of whom participated in the initial discussions about "postmodernism". In order to identify the essential markers of this concept, formulated initially by Western researchers rather amorphously and vaguely, the authors of this study analyzed individual texts of both pioneer theorists, which undoubtedly include Ihab Hassan, Fredrik Jamieson, Brian McHale, Terry Eagleton, Linda Hutcheon, and scientists who joined the debate later: Alan Kirby and Stuart Jeffries. The conceptual basis of the article is the theory of F. Jamieson, who defines "postmodernism" as the cultural dominant of capitalism at its "late" stage. The comparative method is used in the course of the study. The following grounds of criticism are revealed: the initial failure of the term, its semantic uncertainty (I.Hassan); institutionalization, lack of a theory of political agency (L. Hutchenon, T. Eagleton), overestimation of universality (B. McHale, T. Eagleton); obsolescence and inconsistency with modern realities (A. Kirby). On the other hand, F. Jamieson retains his previous argumentation, abandoning the very term "postmodern" / "postmodernism" in favor of "globalization", and makes some corrective changes. S. Jeffries believes that new technologies have accelerated the spread of postmodernism and contributed to its revival. Such ongoing discussions suggest that the concept of "postmodern" / "postmodernism" retains a certain heuristic potential, and, according to the authors, radical socio-economic and environmental changes pose a real threat to it.

Традиційний родильний текст подолян: анатомічний і вербальний коди обрядового тексту

The topicality of the paper is conditioned by the need to learn the Ukrainian linguistic world-image, identification of verbal means that preserve the collective cultural code. Dialectal worldview is one of the varieties of verbal worldview, which reflecting the peculiarities of the regional worldview, represents the features of the speakers’ spiritual and material worlds perception, imprinted in the language. A dialect text is a reliable source for researching a dialectal worldview specifically and All-Ukrainian one in general. The aim of the article is to conduct the ethnolinguistic analysis of the Podolian birth texts through the prism of key linguistic and cultural ideas represented in ritual terminology, beliefs and prohibitions aimed at ensuring a happy fate for the newborn. The birth text of Podolians is considered as a linguistic and cultural text based on the unity of object, quantitative, verbal and anatomical codes. Analysis of verbal realization of anatomical and verbal codes of ritual text is the tasks of the article. Each code of the ritual text is formed by a wide corpus of analyzed names, most of which are autochthonous, Slavic in origin. The research was carried out on the dialect material collected in 62 settlements of Vinnytsia region by expedition method. The work also uses general scientific (analysis and synthesis, comparison, descriptive methods) and linguistic methods: textological (contextual analysis), comparative-historical, and the method of component analysis. It has been established that the customary instructions in the Podolian linguistic and cultural birth text, recorded in the studied territory, are a manifestation of the archaic ideas of our ancestors about the animism of the surrounding world: water, trees, earth, objects and plants are endowed with the qualities of living beings, and therefore are able to transmit their properties to humans by contacting with them. The word programs the child’s Destiny, therefore a wide range of speech formulas used at various stages of the birth ceremony, and most actively at baptisms, is aimed at ensuring a happy destiny for the child. The action in the appropriate ritual context acquires a magical role: fun, dancing, singing, treats at baptisms, according to beliefs, guarantee a happy, joyful life for a new family member. The number in folk culture is an object of symbolization and evaluation: pursuing matrimonial goals, our ancestors actively observed the parity of actions and objects in the birth ceremony. The unity of the structural elements of the Podolian birth ceremony, its nominations with the corresponding elements of the Slavs or even more broadly the Europeans testifies to its archaicness, taboo nature, and relative conservatism. In view of this, further studies of this subject have a wide heuristic potential for establishing Ukrainian-Slavic connections in the field of onomasiology, etymology and ethnology.

Formas biográficas y narrativas. Aproximaciones teórico-epistemológicas y expresiones analíticas para el estudio de experiencias de mujeres que transitan cáncer de mama

This article is a theoretical-epistemic and methodological reflection on biographical forms within the framework of a research project focused on the transit through breast cancer of women living in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires in the second decade of the 21st century. The question of the experience of illness led us to investigate the biographical and its heuristic potential in working with narratives for socio-anthropological studies of health. In order to do so, we focused on the process of interlocution with 25 women from popular and middle class sectors, between 26 and 75 years old. We emphasize the social dimension of all subjectivity, considering the dialogical and ethical nature of working with biographical forms. We also reflect on the process of narrative configuration in the research practice. For the empirical analysis, we recover the configurative-temporal capacity and the place of biographical rupture in the illness process. At the same time, we pay attention to aspects that participate and operate in the narrative process as an attempt to give an account of oneself: the moment in which the interlocution takes place in relation to the times and therapeutic instances of the illness; the horizons of expectations; the ways of thinking about the origin and/or causes of the diagnosis; and the place of the experience as a catalyst of other biographically significant events.

Heuristic potential of the axiological approach in the study of administrative and legal protection of cultural heritage

Heuristic potential of the axiological approach in the study of administrative and legal protection of cultural heritage

Financial and economic mechanisms of urban agglomeration

The subject of the study is the search for mechanisms of financial and economic regulation of the development of urban agglomeration, which, due to the chronic insufficiency of funds for these purposes of municipal budgets, is of particular importance. The purpose of the work is to justify the need to use non-traditional tools for regulating the coordinated development of municipalities forming the urban agglomeration. At the same time, it is shown that not only state regional government and municipal self-government bodies are the subjects of economic activity in each urban agglomeration: among them there are quite independent economic entities that need to be invited on the principles of public-private and municipal-private partnership to participate in the coordinated management of the development of the entire agglomeration in the interests of all stakeholders. The study is conducted on the basis of generalisation of the literature on the analysis of the methods used to manage the development of the urban agglomerations. Publications in which the analysed problems found forms of their resolution are the sources of information. The results of the study have heuristic potential due to the possibility of using the considered tools for financing the development of agglomeration for the coordinated development of the municipalities that do not form the urban agglomeration. The possibility of applying non-traditional forms of financing the coordinated development by increasing the capitalisation of municipal assets is the conclusion of the study. The relevance of the considered topic is due to the need to ensure the use of the entire arsenal of market instruments for purposeful development of the municipalities at a new stage of state development.

Philosophy of Hryhorii Skovoroda: Nature and Humanity

Purpose. The article aims to reconstruct the course of Hryhorii Skovoroda’s philosophical thought, which will reveal the context in the formation of his idea of a caring attitude toward nature. Theoretical basis. The theoretical and methodological background of the article was formed by the basic ideas of researchers on environmental issues, as well as the developments of representatives of the Kyiv worldview-anthropological school, related to the research of the Ukrainian philosopher’s teachings. Originality. Being a contemporary and witness in forming and implementing the guidelines for the complete transformation of the natural world, H. Skovoroda makes a brilliant attempt to outline its alternative. Its substantive premise is the thesis about the identity of God and nature, and the forms of categorical expression are the concepts of "gratitude" and "ingratitude". For the philosopher, nature as expediency is a model and standard of human behavior, which should imitate nature (a metaphor of a teacher and a doctor as servants of nature). For H. Skovoroda, the thesis about human gratitude to God means a) the priority for a man of higher meanings accessible through self-knowledge, and b) concern for preserving nature as a creation of God. Conclusions. The article argues that H. Skovoroda, as a contemporary and witness in the formation of the guideline for the complete subjugation of nature, thinks about its alternative. Addressing the context of its formation allows us to reveal its main principles. On the pages of the dialogue "The Grateful Erodius", he reminds men that as a part of nature, they have certain obligations to it. The fundamental categories from H. Skovoroda here are "gratitude" and "ingratitude". The forms of expressing gratitude include the idea that nature as the embodiment of worthwhileness is the legislator of the human way of life. Today, at the beginning of the 21st century, when humanity is looking for that categorical imperative of modernity that will allow us to preserve nature, it is useful and fruitful to turn to the heritage of the Ukrainian philosopher of the 18th century, H. Skovoroda. He is one of those brilliant predecessors whose legacy has significant heuristic potential. The issue is that in the process of sensemaking the history of humanity in the 20th and early 21st centuries, which demonstrates the consequences of overestimating human activity, H. Skovoroda gives us the key to a deeper understanding of modernity.

Казнь после казни: власть и тело преступника после смерти в России начала XVIII в.

The article is dedicated to the relationship between the authorities and the Church regarding the body of a criminal after execution. Such an existential event for society traditionally fell within the realm of religious beliefs and church rituals. At the same time, the death penalty has always undoubtedly been one of the most important channels of social control and a means of intimidating subjects. It was during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, under the rule of Peter I, that church rituals and the dogmas of the Last Judgment gradually began to give way to the demonstration of the state's monopoly on violence. This perspective of the study will allow us to see in the worldview of eighteenth-century Russia not just the traits of a transitional period, but also evidence of a deep transformation in consciousness. The facts of the punishment of the criminal’s body after death have been documented by many researchers of repressive practices, using Russian sources. Historians point to the tradition of burying executed individuals outside the cemetery grounds, in "poor houses” (ubogie doma), in common nameless graves without religious rites. It is well known that after executions, bodies were left on the wheel, nailed to trees and fences, drowned in rivers, thrown into forests or swamps, burned, and the heads of criminals often remained on stakes or pillories "for admonition" to others.[1] This extensive documentary material has rich heuristic potential and requires deep interpretation. In this article, the historical context of the punishment of the criminal's body after execution will be explored based on three high-profile cases: the case of the streltsy colonel Ivan Tsykler and his associates in 1697; the streltsy executions of 1698–1699; and the case of the first governor of Siberia, Prince Matvei Gagarin, in 1721. A comparison of the circumstances and symbolism of these executions will provide new material for understanding the mechanisms of the representation of power during the early Russian Enlightenment. The conclusions of the work are based on investigative cases from the Preobrazhenskii Chancellery (Prikaz), the Secret Chancellery, and the Expedition; visual sources; and descriptions of executions left by contemporaries.

Cognitive biases in cyber fraud practices: the heuristic potential of M. Norton's theory

Cognitive biases in cyber fraud practices: the heuristic potential of M. Norton's theory

Heuristic Potential of the History of Mathematics (on the Example of the Composition of Mathematical Problems for Schoolchildren)

Heuristic Potential of the History of Mathematics (on the Example of the Composition of Mathematical Problems for Schoolchildren)

Контексты изучения средневекового города, или О пользе «бесплодных» дискуссий в истории исторической науки

In the article, the author continues reflections on the fundamental importance and heuristic potential of the consistent study of materials of scientific discussions for historical-historiographic research. In the context of modern discussions of the problems of the theory of history and temporal aspects of historical consciousness, it is worth paying attention to the concept of the “complex present” by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, who emphasizes the essential changes that have occurred in the perception of time in the 21st century, as a result of the departure from paradigm of progress, with a constantly shrinking short present characteristic of this model. On the contrary, according to Gumbrecht’s concept, shared by the author of the article in its main provisions, the new present of the 21st century is a time of hidden coexistence of many pasts. From this position the article, using the example of a long discussion of Soviet historians about a medieval city, discusses the role of seemingly endless and fruitless discussions in stimulating new research questions and that work in search of answers to them, which entails the attraction of newsource material, reconfiguration of thesubject field,constant reinterpretation and peculiar interference of theconcepts formed at each previous stage, without which the development of historical science would be impossible.

DMYTRО DONTSOV’S TEXTS IN THE ASPECT OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND LEXICOGRAPHY

Increasingly, computer technologies in linguistics offer their advanced tools to process, store and select language data, which has triggered the fast development of the actual branch of linguistic studies – corpus linguistics. Through the use of large-scale empirical data and advanced computer technologies to reach objective insights into language function, linguistic corpora have quickly become invaluable resources. Data obtained through corpus analysis facilitate the drawing of qualitatively new conclusions about language and highlight research directions that previously received little attention. Despite substantial linguistic work on Dmytro Dontsov’s writings, there still exist a number of questions not studied so far. Among these are compiling a linguistic language corpus as well as a concordance of this prominent thinker, public figure, publicist utilizing modern methods to calculate and fix lexemes in order to identify their attributive collocation. Any available means of programming, facilitating processing language material of a big mass, have been realized to be an undoubtedly productive way to properly perform conceptual analysis and to serve as an additional tool for studying. The purpose of the study is to determine the peculiarities of the unique features of Dmytro Dontsov’s maxims in the aspect of corpus linguistics and lexicography on the basis of the corpus space that forms the linguistic vision of the world and is a source of creating lexicographical pieces of work (concordances, a writing language, a writer language, etc.). We emphasize that the creation of Dmytro Dontsov’s writing concordance has become the subject of corpus linguistics study for the first time. The subject of our study is the writings of Dmytro Dontsov, their lexicographical parametrization which provides all possible words with their description (phonetic, word-creating, grammatical), along with quantitative indices, i.e. it is the result of learning many linguistic disciplines, unified by the dictionary. The methodology of study is the combination of general theoretical methods (analysis, generalization, explanation) with the applied methods of linguistics. Analysis of the studied conception is grounded in “The Spirit of Our Antiquity” text corpus compiled by using the Sketch Engine program. On the basis of the analysis, it is found out that an electronic corpus provides the opportunity to accelerate language study and increase its effectiveness, probability and checkability significantly. The article reveals heuristic potential, practical effectiveness of the corpus and application of concordant technologies in conceptual studies. It was discovered that, the construction of the full concordance of the writings of Dmytro Dontsov will enable showing the picture of the world on the basis of learning the author’s lexical wealth and reproducing his understanding of the political situation. The created concordance is a stage of forming lexicographical works about Dontsov, which provides understanding of stages, methods, principles and peculiarities of compiling Dmytro Dontsov’s writing language dictionary. The multifaceted study of D. Dontsov’s writings is believed to be of importance. The concordance serves as a new material, important for politicians, journalists, teachers, students, for it is an entrance in a system of new words, filling with new ideas, and possibility to perceive the world through the nation-state aspirations of a great thinker. Realization of his project will help to create a political-intellectual product of great importance to offer bright prospects for future linguistic study, whose tasks are supposed to use linguistic material.

Ideological models of modern Russian society: theoretical and methodological construct of the study

The article presents the main aspects of the author's theoretical and methodological construct for studying the worldview models of modern Russian society. The object of the study was the processes of worldview formation in the consciousness of generations of modern Russia, the subject was the theoretical and methodological basis for studying the worldview models of Russians in generational and regional dimensions. The history of the concept of worldview in philosophy and social sciences is considered in detail, the features of its conceptualization in modern dictionaries and reference books are revealed, and the heuristic potential of using the concept of worldview proposed by K. Jaspers as a complex process of internalization of the socio-cultural worldview base with subsequent objectification of subjective experience is shown. It is the insurmountable gap between the objective and the subjective in Jasper's concept of worldview that allows us to record generational differences based on the principle of "meta-contrast". The theoretical and methodological basis of the study was a critical conceptual analysis, the concept of worldview by K. Jaspers, as well as the theory of self-categorization by J. Turner with its key concept of "meta-contrast". All this theoretical and methodological work took place in the context of a model approach to worldview. As a result of the study, it was established that more than two hundred years of development of the concept of worldview led to its extreme vagueness and comprehensiveness, which could not but negatively affect its heuristic potential. To correct this situation, a model approach to worldview was proposed, which made it possible to operationalize this concept for subsequent quantitative research of mass consciousness in order to identify connections between the worldview base of Russians and its ideological derivatives.

ЕВРИСТИЧНИЙ ПОТЕНЦІАЛ СУЧАСНИХ ЗНАЧЕНЬ СМИСЛОВОГО ПОЛЯ КАТЕГОРІЇ «ЦІННОСТІ»

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to summarize the dynamics of changes that have taken place in the semantic field of the category of “values” and to determine their role in solving the problem of decision-making. The objectives of the study are: a) to characterize the already implemented areas of scientific research on the category of “values”; b) to identify the meanings of the category of “values” that are updated in the modern psychological and interdisciplinary discourse; c) to assess the prospects of using the identified meanings of the category of “values” in solving the problem of decision-making. Methods.The research methods used were historical, systemic and interdisciplinary approaches, which allowed to characterize new meanings in the semantic field of the category of “values”, as well as the principle of the unity of practical and theoretical knowledge. Results. The analysis of scientific approaches to transcendentalisation and subjectivisation in the study of values revealed stigmatised semantic meanings of the category “values” that do not correspond to modern scientific inquiries into the reasons for making losing decisions. Instead, in the bosom of psychology and against an interdisciplinary background, a research area related to the bio-psychological aspect of values is developing. This includes studies that focus on the dynamic, procedural nature of values. The latter makes it possible to study the disruption of the connection between the conscious and unconscious spheres, which results in mostly unconscious epiphenomena such as reality deformations, cognitive distortions, conditional values, uncontrolled actions, importation of the psyche, idealised “Self”, etc. Conclusions. The modern semantic field of the category “values” is supplemented by new meanings related to the procedural nature of values at the bio-psychic level evaluation, acquisition of values, choice as an individual trajectory of life, creation of values, conventionality of values, correlation of conscious and unconscious spheres in the process of evaluation. It is obvious that the new meanings of the semantic field of the category “values” have heuristic potential for solving urgent issues in decision-making practice.

Dinosaur palaeoneurology: an evolving science.

Our fascination with dinosaur brains and their capabilities essentially began with the first dinosaur discovery. The history of this study is a useful reflection of palaeoneurology as a whole and its relationship to a more inclusive evolutionary neuroscience. I argue that this relationship is imbued with high heuristic potential, but one whose realization requires overcoming certain constraints. These constraints include the need for a stable phylogenetic framework, methods for efficient and precise endocast construction, and fossil researchers who are steeped in a neuroscience perspective. The progress that has already been made in these areas sets the stage for a more mature palaeoneurology-not only one capable of being informed by neuroscience discoveries but one that drives such discoveries. I draw from work on the size, shape, behavioural correlates and developmental role of the dinosaur brain to outline current advances in dinosaur palaeoneurology. My examples largely are taken from theropods and centre on questions related to the origin of birds and their unique locomotory capabilities. The hope, however, is that these exemplify the potential for study in other dinosaur groups, and for utilizing the dinosaur-bird lineage as a parallel model on a par with mammals for studying encephalization.

Renegotiating domesticity in the making of homestays in Atauro, Timor‐Leste

AbstractThis paper explores emerging domesticities in Atauro, Timor‐Leste, in relation to efforts to make homestays available for potential tourists. In exploring these new domesticities, we elucidate the ‘civilising process’ that is happening in terms of the ways in which people consider hygiene, diet, and their relationship with non‐human animals. In addition, the advent of potential tourism engenders the emergence of a new trend in domestic architecture. At the same time, this raising of homestays has intensified the workload of especially younger women, preventing them from taking part in collective activities and agriculture, which makes them more dependent on the market economy. Our analysis of these processes points to the heuristic potential of intersectional analysis to better understand development dynamics in contemporary Timor‐Leste.

Социалистическое государство и коммунизм: к вопросу об исторической возможности будущего

The article articulates the search for conceptually productive conjugations of the concepts of the socialist state and communist society in the context of the “history of the future”. The reasoning develops from the correlation of the fundamental provisions of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of the withering away of the state under communism and the Soviet experience of state-building. At the same time, the main plot is built around the question of the ways and mechanisms of the transition of state socialism to “stateless” communism. The classical considerations on this issue are too strategic for practically significant social forecasts. Soviet socialism, on its “applied” side, left the question of “final” communism open. And now we can talk about the heuristic potential and logical consistency of the interpretation of the Soviet period of national history as a preparatory (and incomplete) stage in the development of a classless form of society. Despite the fact that the desired trend of denationalization, as the main visible sign of approaching communism, is practically nowhere visible throughout the Soviet project. And the collapse of the USSR completely received the opposite completely official qualification of capitalist restoration. The uncontested nature of communism as a result of the development of productive forces. By itself, it does not exclude a variety of ways of his concrete historical “coming”. Moreover, the Soviet version of the socialist state did not meet the expectations associated with it. And not only for external reasons. The impossibility of manually synchronizing the objective and subjective prerequisites of the new society programmed the socialist transformations into aberrations that turned the Soviet state from a direct, that is, the shortest, road to a bright future into a historical dead end. Although this does not imply the possibility of other, so to speak, detour options. But their search is definitely impossible without the historical identification of modernity and clarifying its relationship with the future on this basis.

The Epistemological Frontier in the Culture of Science Communication after Paul Feyerabend

The subject of the study is the heuristic potential of the theoretical construct of the “epistemological frontier”, which describes the state of scientific knowledge in the context of methodological pluralism. The post-non-classical stage in the development of science is characterized by the coexistence of concepts about the object, formulated in various paradigms and based on different theoretical approaches. The culture of scientific communication, as an area of creation, preservation and development of scientific knowledge, which is the object of our attention, is significantly expanding, including different epistemological traditions. Therefore, there is a methodological need to include in the orbit of theoretical attention the area of scientific knowledge formed between two or more concepts that are not reducible to a common dialectical basis. The purpose of the article is to reveal the descriptive and heuristic potential of the “epistemological frontier” construct for studying the event horizon between the extreme values of the cosmological foundations of scientific creativity designated by P. Feyerabend (Aristotelian and modern, post-Copernian). To achieve this within the framework of philosophical and analytical methodology, the author solves two scientific and cognitive problems: formalizes the construct of “epistemological frontier” and examines its applicability for understanding Feyerabend's philosophy. The theoretical construct of “epistemological frontier” proposed by the author certainly requires further theoretical criticism, including clarification of the limits of its application. Its heuristic potential lies primarily in the fact that it can be used to record the simultaneous validity and truth of contradictory provisions formulated on the basis of various theoretical positions: the multidimensionality of truth, even if it is paradoxical, is thus no longer a sign of the falsity of one of the judgments. The coexistence of contradictory truths is becoming the norm, especially in the field of social and humanitarian sciences.