The empirical level of scientific knowledge as one of the forms of cognition in general.

What does the term "knowledge" mean for us?
Cognition is a certain activity of a person, which is aimed at understanding the world around us and ourselves in this vast world. Man for all his life is aware of the world around him, mastering various skills. Among them, it is clearly possible to distinguish materially the technical skill, the production of vital goods through labor and the spiritual, which is aimed at sensing a person.
The main task of scientific cognition is the discovery of laws of reality, namely, natural, social, and laws of reality.
The essence of knowledge is reduced to the fact that in the random it finds the necessary, and for the individual it hides the general.
The method of scientific knowledge in the translation from the Greek language is translated as a way directed to something. The method reveals various rules, principles that lead to the disclosure of the essence, to the solution of a specific problem.

There are 2 main forms: empirical and theoretical.
The empirical level of scientific knowledge is reduced to the study of real objects. Namely: the empirical level of scientific knowledge is reduced to the fact that at this stage we study the interactions, the contact of a person with the surrounding natural objects. Here the main role is played by sensory cognition, judgments also have a role, but they are of secondary importance here. The information here is obtained directly through observations, deliveries of various experiments or experiments. The second level is followed by the formation of empirical formulations. Of course, the empirical level of scientific knowledge of the picture of the world is subject to a certain subjectivism in perception, but this aspect is inevitable wherever a person relies on the realm of sensory assessments of reality.

Theoretical level takes into account, above all, the prevalence of theories, laws, concepts, as well as the predominance of the mental component. Sensual cognition acquires a subordinate role. It is at this level that knowledge of the deepest sides occurs, which were inaccessible in the empirical level of scientific knowledge. The theoretical level of scientific knowledge is the highest stage in cognition. The theoretical level is based on theoretical laws that respond clearly and clearly to the question posed. Through theoretical knowledge we become witnesses of new hypotheses, laws.
These two levels of theoretical knowledge should never be torn off from each other and placed opposite each other. These levels are tightly connected. The empirical level of theoretical cognition serves as a source, the basis of the theoretical level. Among other things, theories are formed as a result of sensory images, are based on an empirical level. In addition, the empirical level can never exist separately from the theoretical level.
At the empirical level of scientific knowledge, we often turn to methods of cognition, namely, observation, analysis, measurement, experiment.
Being at the theoretical level of scientific knowledge, we address, first of all, abstraction, analogy, modeling.

An important place in the modern world has a systematic method of investigation. This is the oldest method of the theoretical level of cognition.
From all of the above, you can clearly state that scientific knowledge is a complex system, which includes a huge number of links, many elements. These include the following forms of thinking: judgments, concepts. In addition to these simple concepts, more complex ones are deduced, such as theory and hypothesis. Everything in the world is interconnected, so is the empirical level of scientific knowledge, it is connected with the theoretical. Thus, the basic forms of scientific knowledge are formed that allow humanity as a whole to progress steadily.