Yuriy Rotenfeld - Philosophy is the Unborn Child of Science - Looking for a Universal Common Language. Философия – это нерожденное дитя науки - в поисках универсального общеупотребительного языка

Figure 4. Three stages in the development of the mind

According to Aristotle, philosophy is meant to be engaged not just into the search for the elements and principles – all concrete sciences are engaged into this by searching for specifically-scientific comparative concepts of gradation type, such as heavy and easy for physics, long and short for geometry, rich and poor for the economy, healthy and sick for medicine, etc.

The mission of philosophy is the search for the most common principles in the form of specific-universal comparative concepts. The philosophy was created to reduce the diversity of specific scientific knowledge to similar, but extremely common primary causes- meta processes.

The philosophers did not succeed in this. Therefore, philosophy is not «the mother of all Sciences’, as it is commonly believed, but «their unborn child’.

None of the Sciences in their generalizations strive to go so far as philosophy, which can arise only when it learns to generalize the principles of the specific Sciences. Each of its concepts is a generalization of all specifically-scientific comparative concepts of a similar kind.

As an example, we can consider one of the simplest concrete-universal concepts of gradation type, namely, «correlated». And we see how this concept incorporates all the specifically-scientific comparative concepts of the same kind, such as hard and soft, rich and poor, as well as all the other concepts considered relative to each other. The same applies to all other specific universal concepts, which makes them scientific.

Mathematics, claiming to be the Queen of Sciences, because with the help of numbers it can describe everything existing is in our world in the most accurate way – it is though special, but still a specific science. Its first principle is a quantitative concept representing the comparative concepts of gradation. Mathematics does not conceive the Universal, as it was supposed to be performed by philosophy, it reflects in numbers only the conclusions of this or that particular science.

Therefore, mathematics is not the Queen of all Sciences, as is commonly believed today, but their conscientious servant .

The Sciences, D.E.Gasparyan writes, «are interested in the reduction of knowledge in the limited areas». The distinctive feature of philosophy is that its subject is the entire reality

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