Axioms of cognition affecting human–environmental interactions as traced in historiographical texts

The subject of this paper is the subconscious and half-conscious basis of cognition, that is, “axioms of cognition” which influence rational thinking and human information processing. The verbal expression of these axioms and the way they actually work within human mind can be more easily traced in the polemic texts. The material for the study is historiographical texts on interethnic relations. The suggested textual analysis can provide a researcher with (1) information about the author's sociomental group (people who similarly interpret systematically organized information: T.M. Dridze's term) and (2) information about the type of audience which can uncontroversially perceive a given text.