Karpenko N. Explanation and Understanding in Modern Scientific Paradigm.

Subject: Explanation and Understanding in Modern Scientific Paradigm. Main aim: To construct new shem of functionality explanation and understanding in modern scientific paradigm. To complicates the structure of hermeneutic cycle which unfolds itself in a hermeneutic spiral. For that purpose two levels of complicacy are introduced - that of the depth of individual understanding and that of the time of socialized understanding. Methodology: Historical reconstruction, contrast, modular and comparative methods. Results: Explanations and understanding are mutually complementary in the interdisciplinary investigations. Understanding manifests itself as a premise/precondition and the objective of explanation. The choice of only one variant of explanation from the infinite multitude of other possible variant becomes clear.