As has been rightly said by L. Geymonat,¹ already quoted above, methodological research on science cannot be conducted if it does not include "the historical dimension". Any methodological analysis, let us emphasize once more, which does not take this viewpoint into account cannot yield sufficiently comprehensive conclusions as to the language of a given discipline and the problems of that discipline, nor can it suggest any means of solving such problems. It is only when we grasp a given discipline as a historical whole, i.e., when we treat it as a system that is undergoing incessant changes, that we can realize the dialectics of its development and the problems which are specific to it. This will also bring out the development trends of that discipline. It we come to know them as they find their manifestation in the goal aimed at (more or less consciously) by scholars, then we can consider what that goal, as reconstructed by us, has made or makes possible to attain, and what hampers its attainment.