EVALUATIVEANDESTIMATEDPRIORITIES BY F.M. DOSTOEVSKY, REFLECTED IN THE CONCEPT "THOUGHT" AND IN THE DISCRIPTION OF THINKING PROCESSES
The article concerns the links among the mentality of people, national understanding of the world, products of thinking and concepts. It also reviews the peculiarities of thinking processes verbalization by means of the concept “thought”. The cognitive and axiological analysis of Dostoevsky’s aphorisms revealed several paradoxes in his estimation of mental activity, clarified implicit evaluations, found in his statements, allowed reconstructing some part of evaluative scale facilitating the implementation of the concept under consideration.