The post-industrialization of the modern world, as a result of which science is becoming an increasingly decisive factor in economics, highlights the theory of scientific knowledge, the main section of which is epistemology, which is also the main section of the philosophy of science. The theory of knowledge and the philosophy of science are experiencing a crisis today, caused by the victory in the 20th century. in both of these disciplines, the principle of fallibilism (from the English fallible - erroneous), according to which no scientific theory can be substantiated 100% reliably, so that tomorrow the fallacy of any of them, including the most fundamental, may be revealed. Experts in the theory of knowledge and philosophers of science do not know what to do with this principle.