ON THE POSSIBLE METAPHYSICAL COMPONENT OF NON-TRANSCENDENTAL COGNITIVE EXPERIENCE

The article substantiates the thesis about the possibility to detect a specific way of thinking associated with going beyond the basic reality not only in special forms of cognition, but also in ordinary cognitive experience. In accordance with the definition of metaphysics as the doctrine of true Being, as opposed to the illusory one, we can designate this direction of thoughts as metaphysical. A metaphysical breakthrough as a transition from one level of reality to another differs from such intellectual actions as mythologizing or creating a metaphor. From the standpoint of constructivist epistemology, we can speak of a metaphysical transition not only as a movement through the levels of reality, but also as a change in the reality. We can find a transition to another reality, in particular, in a situation of a paradigm shift in science (the scientific reality changes) and in a borderline situation when the lifeworld changes due to the global reassessment by a person of the circumstances of his/her life. Additionally, an epistemologist can describe such transition through the concepts of hermeneutical field and crystallization. According to the author, the above interpretation allows to conclude that the metaphysical transition is a necessary component of cognitive processes that, in this perspective, can be defined as transcending.