As science manifests in relief its status of a social institute immediately engaged in the ramified structure of practical collisions and proves to be a mass production of knowledge designed to satisfy, ultimately, human wants and needs, the creative and constructive features of research work get perceived much more distinctly than earlier. Under such circumstances, the analysis of scientific truth as an ideal of cognition becomes especially urgent. Not only the epistemological perspective revealing the central part of truth within knowledge comes to the forefront but also the social context which determines the place of truth in the framework of culture in connection with tangible and spiritual values.

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• The search for truth as creative act
• Truth as an epistemological ideal
• The social guiding of truth