COMMON SENSE AS AN AXIOLOGICAL PRESUPPOSITION OF PSEUDOSCIENCE

Abstract. The paper deals with the phenomenon of common sense in its connection with the problem of pseudoscientific knowledge. The author position is that the modern pseudoscientists use certain properties of the common sense to continue the production of the converted forms of knowledge, and the common sense, therefore, is an axiological presupposition of pseudoscience. While the ontological basis of pseudoscience is implied into the scientific community itself, often using the language of science or the academic position, the axiological aspects of the phenomenon are based on manipulation with society opinion, the result of which (if the manipulation is successful) is the material profit or fame