PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STARTING POINT OF THE PROBLEM OF SCIENTIFIC PREDICTION

In this article the features of such phenomenon of scientific knowledge as prediction are considered. The relevance of studying this subject is that the future grows from the present and humanity by any means trying to solve the mystery of the future. However, science is interested in scientific prediction, and not, for example, mythological or mystical. Philosophical and methodological analysis of the starting point of the problem of scientific prediction is the main content of this article.