The Secret of Geniality
The Secret of Geniality

Summary/Abstract: This is the last part of the book THE SECRET OF GENIALITY (Yerevan, Armenia, Noyan Tapan Printing House, 2002) written by our colleague Robert Djidjian. We published this book not only because we all must know the philosophical research and creation (in our domain of epistemology and philosophy of science and technology) from a wider geographic area than that provided by the established fashion in virtue of both extra–scientific reasons and a yet obsolete manner to communicate and value the research; but also because the book as such is living, challenging and very instructive. The title of the book is suggestive enough to make us to focus on an old problem: the dialectic of the insight, of the discovery – its psychology moving between flashes of intuitions and knowledge stored in memory – and its logic of composition of knowledge from hypotheses to their demonstration and verification. The realm of science is most conducive to the understanding of this dialectic and the constitution of the ideas which are the proofs of what is the most certain for humans: the “world 3”, as Popper called the kingdom of human results of their intellection, and though transient and perishable in both their uniqueness and cosmic fate, the only certain proof of the reason to be of homo sapiens in the frame of multiversal existence. Therefore, the power to create is the secret of the human geniality, and how to create science is a main part of this secret. This last part of the book is that of the Appendix the author added especially in order to highlight the methodology of the scientific discovery and the dialectical principles of both knowledge and the world. Highlighting the big problems or theories as ”mysteries” and elucidating them by revealing the contradictions that lead to new theories and prefigures not only a new basis of understanding but also new problems makes the philosophy of science to appear here exciting as in the research of a detective. The clear explanation of concepts, the unexpected links between domains and between theories of different domains, the impeccable logic of inferences, the sense of humour and the integrative approach where the history of ideas formation is crossed by the red thread of the methodological goal make the reading of – not only this part but – the entire book a useful and enjoyable event for anyone. The book is a tool in the intellectual development so necessary nowadays.

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