Abstract
The paper deals with the theory of knowledge or gnosiology, which appeared in the philosophy at a very early stage of its development. Gnosiology studies the nature of human cognitive activity, the ratio of knowledge to reality, the conditions of its existence in the system of culture and communication, the criteria of truth and ways to achieve the true knowledge. The main issue of the gnosiology is the problem of the knowability of the world. The author argues that cognition is the process of purposeful and active representation of reality in the human consciousness. During the cognition it is Continue reading...