Scientific tasks:
• Desciption
• Explanation
• Prediction
Scientific criteria:
• Objectivity implies that the cognition of the phenomenon is realized independently of the cognizing subject, i.e. there is a distraction from the interests of the cognizing individual and from the whole supernatural;
• Systematic. Scientific knowledge must be logically organized;
• Rationality - in scientific knowledge, not just something is reported, but the necessary grounds are given, by the way, this statement can be considered true
• Verification. By virtue of which only that knowledge is scientific, which can be confirmed (one way or another, directly or indirectly, sooner or later). This principle was proposed by Bertrand Russell;
• Falsification. By virtue of which only that knowledge is scientific, which can (either one way, directly or indirectly, sooner or later) be refuted or supplemented. This principle was proposed by Karl Popper
• Heuristics - predict. Helps to predict new facts, provides an increase in knowledge, and not just systematizes already known facts;
• Criticality is the willingness to subject the findings to criticism and verification in the hope of finding faults, learn something from these mistakes, and, if lucky, build a better theory;
• Truth
• Problem. Science is an attempt to solve problem situations. The historian Collingwood: every science begins with a consciousness of ignorance;
• Progressism. Scientific knowledge must improve. To the art this requirement is not applicable, there can be several directions simultaneously (for example, realism and surrealism).