Ontological Status of the Truth: Relation of the Ideal and the Real

The article is devoted to the idea of ontological truth, understood as the harmonious unity of the ideal and the real. The logical structure of truth is determined by the specifi c relation (“disposition”) opposites of thinking and being, the ideal and the real, universal and the individual. Turning to the national heritage of dialectical thought (“ontognoseology” of Mickail Lifshits, dialectical logic of Evald Ilyenkov), the author proves the idea of a specifi c difference of the ideal and the real, thinking and being in the structure of the truth. This difference makes it possible to keep the substantial unity and universality of truth as opposed to non-classical (phenomenological and postmodern) methodology of “pure” difference. As a result, non-classical methodology fragments thinking and being on the set of simulacra and loses “the things themselves”.