ABSTRACT
This essay aim is to analyze the limits of the gnosiological proposals in relation to the contribution of ontology to the development of knowledge and in particular to administrative knowledge. Thus, we proceed to an analysis of the argument that we consider having produced the greatest impact on the production of knowledge in the Brazilian administrative field, the "Circle of Matrices Epistemic" by Ana Paula Paes de Paula (2016). We start from the appreciation of the categories ontology and gnosiology trying to delimit them and confront them so that we could contextualize the Paradigmatic War that engenders the thesis of the matrices. The analysis shows that the notion of "cognitive incompleteness" represents an impetus for the advancement of knowledge, as the author has pointed out, but the proposed solution, epistemic circles, are incapable of demolish the division between technical and practical interests and emancipatory, because it maintains the cuts in the social phenomena and operates gnosiologically, being fruit of the construction of the reason from its interests. As a conclusion, we recover the foundational ontological status of the social being by contrasting the Habermasian philosophical tradition with the Karl Marx materialist ontological apprehension in order to advance in the production of knowledge by directing efforts to the primacy of the object, that is, in the reality of the social relations seized in its totality.
Ontology, Gnosiology; Circle of Epistemic Matrices; Historical Dialectical Materialism; Epistemology