PROBLEM OF THEORETICAL EXPRESSION OF THE NEW IN SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF POSTPOSITIVISM
The article analyzes conceptions of three distinguished representatives of the postpositivism-T. Kun, K. Popper, I. Lakatos; shows what difficulties are impossible to overcome in the context of postpositivism to explain the process of the appearance of the sufficiently new scientific knowledge. The main reason for such difficulties is an exeedingly formal interpretation of the category «the new», which, in its turn, allows thinking that the philosophy of postpositivism partially rejects the ideals of neopositivism regarding the views on the process of development of the scientific knowledge