The Theory of Decision-Making in the Context of Scholar Research: the Heuristic Character of Paradoxicality

The article focuses on the heuristic nature of paradoxicality in the context of the theory of decision-making. The author gives a brief account of the history of the question and overviews the existing viewpoints on the way decisions are made in the context of scholar research. Following the postmodern school the author draws conclusions about the two main ways a scholar may choose considering a new problem. The one is to follow an established paradigm in your own studies, and the other is to make a breakthrough in science that is not grounded on the scholar community’s position. The author describes paradoxical coexistence of the two ways.