METATHEORETICAL LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE UNDERSTANDING
The aim of the work is to study the relationship of understanding and metatheoretical level of knowledge and answer to the question, where exactly the understanding is happening in scientific cognition. The relevance of the problem is due to the need to develop a methodology of understanding, to specify the thesis of universality of understanding and a more adequate representation of the relations of understanding and explanation. The article presents a brief description of levels of scientific knowledge, metatheoretical level of knowledge and the elements of which it consists are discussed in detail. To do this, the author refers to the concepts of V. S. Stepin, S. A. Lebedev, K. Hubner and compares them with each other. The relationship of understanding and metatheoretical level of knowledge is investigated. Metatheoretical level forms a pre-understanding in scientific knowledge. Understanding is not limited by metatheoretical level, it permeates all scientific cognition. A picture of the world has the highest value for the understanding of scientific knowledge, as it creates an image of the investigated reality, but understanding is due to all the elements of the metatheoretical level of scientific knowledge.