Methodological Characteristics of Juridical Sciences

Abstract

In the Introduction the general methodology of sciences was characterized as the science concerned with methods of conduct used in cognition of the world, and in particular with methods of founding statements. Moreover, it deals with a number of other intellectual operations which aim at ordering our knowledge into a coherent set of propositions which constitute the achievements of some scientific discipline. These operations are: explanation, making hypotheses, classification, discernment of types, and so on. Of course, only those statements are listed as scientific statements which have some greater cognitive importance or practical application. The object of interest of methodology is, therefore, any science either conceived as a set of cognitive processes or as a result of processes of this type, that is to say, as a set of propositions recognized as true, suitably founded and ordered.¹