Antinomii metodologice în epistemologie
Methodological antinomies in epistemology

Summary/Abstract: The methodological antinomies of axiomatization and formalization, advanced by Petre Botezatu in Valoarea deducţiei (The Value of Deduction, 1971), were first put forward in his doctoral thesis: Cauzalitatea fizică şi panquantismul (Physical Causality and Panquantism, 1945) in various statements: „What is gained through abstraction, through a scholarly technique, is lost in objectivity, through a detachment from the concrete reality”, or „The advance in the profound knowledge of real causation leaves behind the methodical use of probability”, or „What is gained in terms of generality is lost in terms of objectivity”. I have reached the conclusion that Petre Botezatu’s initial concern was with epistemology, especially with the „turn” taken by the philosophy of physics after the revolutionary discoveries from the laboratories where the chemical elements were investigated in their intimate structures. The philosopher who, after his return to the university, in 1957, was mainly concerned with logic and metalogic, described with precision the epistemological procedures which helped clarify the principle of determinism in the philosophy of quantum physics.

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