AUTHOR’S RATIONAL AND LOGICAL ESTIMATION OF ITS FUND OF KNOWLEDGE

The article studies the reflection as a special mechanism of phrase-structure transformation of a scien- tific text, and also as a mental process associated with the assessment mechanism of the natural development of cognitive activity. The article shows the examples of evaluating literary, popular scientific and science-related texts performed by scientists N. Amosov and F. Uglov. Being a strategy of the author, reflection allows us to express agreement or disagreement with fellow scientists in the transmission of new experience, and leads to the main communication task as to convince the recipient of the correctness of his/her scientific concept