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Abstract

The article proceeds from the idea that multifarious forms and types of explanation is impossible adequately analyse from the position of a single syntactic model but that it is necessary to consider various semantic, practical, and contextual aspects. Therefore we pronaunce some critical remarks to Hempel's „reconstruction“ of explanation as well as to the simplified conception of logic of verification of hypotheses that neglects the meaningful and historical backgrounds of laws and theoretical frames. In the conclusion the author points out the inconsistency in the physicalistic explanation of the unity of scienceand the nonempirical nature of its some starting poin