NOTIONS AND BASIC OPTIONS OF NATURAL SSCIENCES

Origin of basic scientific notions

The option between AO and PO

The option between AI and PI

The attitude of TRADITIONAL PHILO­SOPHY OF SCIENCE

From both measurement processes and Greek geometry

Ignored. AO only, as an unavoidable aspect of science

Ignored. AI only; the hard core of modem science

The attitude of DOMINANT THEORIES

From Greek philosophers’

idealizations (Sohn Rethel)

Ignored. AO only (few principles and deductive method) {Beth)

Ignored. AI only (nonstandard analysis and limit calculus) {Koyré)

The attitude of ALTERNATIVE SCIENTIFIC THEORIES

By idealisations

PO: organisation based on a problem {L. Carnot)

PI: constructive mathematics {Brouwer, Bishop))

The attitude of MARX’ THEORY

By idealisations; say, labour-power

Ignored. PO as a social movement aimed to solve an universal problem {Bogdanov)

Ignored. PI: the progress of substantiating an universal justice

BASIC SOCIAL PROCESSES IN WESTERN SOCIETY

Processes occurred when passing from production society to appropriation society (Sohn-Rethel)

Centralized State as an authoritarian organisation

Capitalism as an unlimited process of accumulation

Introduction of institutions in a society

Society organisation: either authoritarian AO, or self-reliant PO

Development: either unbounded AI or for justice PI

NOTIONS AND BASIC OPTIONS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES