Pagrindinė straipsnio tema yra apžvelgti mokslo sąvokų visumą skirtingų metodologinių interpretacijų požiūriu, kurio atsiradimas susijęs su teksto teorija, turint galvoje tekstą, kaip sujungtą struktūrinę diskurso formą, materialiai užfiksuotą ir perduodamą nuosekliai skaitant. The aim of the paper is a general survey of the meanings of „science“ in regard to various methodological interpretations. There were many attemps to fix the contents of the very term „science“: it could be treated as a social institute, an aggregate of steady interactions, an output of human history or a factor of social life. Science can be understood as a particular kind of social affinity, a universe of competition for status and prestige. The central topic in the investigations of science is, however, studying science as a system of knowledge of a specific type, since the basis of every interpretation of the word „science“ is knowledge, cognition, sientific knowledge or truth.