POSSIBLE AND VALID IN HISTORY: PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT
The article is devoted to the concepts of ‘historical reality’ and ‘historical opportunity’. Various types of historical opportunities are studied. The interconnection of what is possible and what is valid is shown. Besides, the implementation of this interconnection, the dialectical unity and reciprocal transitions of these notions are described. The conditions necessary for the realization of historical opportunity are named. Special attention is given to the importance of studying the phenomena of possible and valid in history for its further research. Methodological opportunities of the cognition methods formed on the base of the categories “historical reality” and “historical opportunity” are shown.