Archaeoastronomy and Cognition: La Mink'a and La Mit'a From the Logic of Relations's Perspective

ABSTRACT To understand the contributions of ancient civilizations to the evolution of knowledge in the fields of archaeoastronomy and/or science in general, through a cognitive perspective, we seek to identify conceptual elements that are consonant and converge with science. All of them come from a cognitive processes in which the subject and the object of knowledge collaborate in a progressive constitution, according to Genetic Epistemology. It is necessary to identify the presence of logic as a mental structure that allows the subject to be capable of supporting the scientific work. In this article, we analyze dates that come from the inca's concept of Ayni which permeates the activities La Mint'a and La Mink'a and demonstrates the presence of the same cognitive structure—the logical—required by scientific work.