Тhe existence of universal laws of thought as condition for intercultural communication
The task of the article is to study intercultural communication problems in the light of the universality and specificity of the laws of thinking. With regard to the task the author uses complex methods of research: the methods of dialectics, the method of comparative analysis, the method of philosophical hermeneutics. The article stresses the importance of communication as an integral part of activity. The author draws attention to the expression in the process of communication (with the mediating role of language) of categorical structure, the laws of thinking and formulates the hypothesis that rosscultural communication is carried out on the basis of common laws of thinking. In order to test the hypothesis she holds a logical and historical analysis of the problem of the existence of universal laws of thinking, analyzes the validity of the selection of cultural and civilizational types of thinking, such as the western and the eastern and establishes the basic unity of the laws of thinking that do not exclude, however, the time difference in formation of specific forms of the laws of thinking in terms of qualitative differences in activities of various societies.