Abstract

Analysis of the problem of the biosphere at the present level of theoretical research has, as it were, "bypassed" a necessary link in the process of cognition, one involving the development of general concepts, an apparatus of categories, propositions and inferences, and the like. Essentially they are lacking. However, to pass from sensory observation directly to practice entails certain negative consequences, as the experience of the development of modern civilization persuasively demonstrates. It is becoming more and more obvious that an adequate interpretation of "biospheric" problems requires the development of fundamental theoretical propositions and, in particular, identification of trends in the development of scientific knowledge.