Epistemological rupture, epistemological cut and science

Abstract

Science is not wholly «transparent» even for those who are making it. What is it that makes a certain knowledge scientific? Which is the nature of the scientific approach to reality? How to grasp scientific progress? Such questions are obscure to scientists themselves and they represent another level of analysis - epistemology. While working at such level, the present study however limited its scope to two main concepts: rupture - the moment of foundation of a science, the production of its object and method - and the one of break - the moment when a given science is re- made, reproducing into new patterns its object and methods.