Balatsky Eugene doctor of economics, professor, director of the Center for Macrocconomic Research in the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. Chief researcher of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Address: 4, 4lh Vcshnyakovskii pass., Moscow, 109456, Russian Federation. E-mail: cvbalatsky@inbox.ru.
Abstract
The article discusses three ways of knowledge underlying the natural sciences, social and intuitive knowledge. There were the characteristics of the methodological basis of each of them - the formal, dialectical and holistic logic. Author has disclosed and formalized paradoxes of G. Gurdjieff and A. Govinda inherent the intuitive way of cognition. In paper is given the definition of a supercomplex system and discussed the reasons of its unknowability by traditional methods. It is shown that the basic feature of social knowledge is its classification as a public good. Author has justified the thesis that the transition from social knowledge to the intuitive knowledge should be made via an intermediate methodology - subtractive negative knowledge. There are outlined the contours of a new approach to the knowledge of the social reality.