Uncertainty Communication Status: Theory or Science Ștefan Vlăduțescu University of Craiova, A. I. Cuza, no. 13, Craiova, Romania E-mail address: stefan.vladutescu@yahoo.com ABSTRACT In this study, we argue in favor of the thesis that communication as an academic discipline faces many uncertainties. One of these is the uncertainty regarding the status. Some talk about Communication theory, others about the Communication Science, about Communicology, "Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication" (SIC), Communication studies etc. Nuclear question about the status of the communication is: the study of communication is a theory or a science, is a weak cogitative system or a strong cogitative system? We distinguish five causes that determined communication study to remain to this day a weak cogitative system: the effervescence of the theoretical-scientific and practical researches in a knowledge area full of promises; heavy coagulation of a cogitational communication community; refusal of the rule; articulation of communicational thinking as “weak thinking” - “weak thought” G. Vattimo); and the delay in the development of the communication ontology. Discipline that studies communication is a weak-cogitative thinking system, a sum of theories but not yet a science. As a set of weak theories, the study of communication is becoming science. In any case, discipline that studies communication is on the way to become a science. Keywords: communication ontology; uncertainty of communication; weak cogitative system 1. INTRODUCTION There are significant relational gains which will lead to a scientific community of communication that would communicate well (De la Peza Casares, 2013). A theory of communication can be based on interpretation, but a science must be objective, methodical, systematically and should allow for verification. L. Duarte and B. Alonso also speak about this; they see the future of communication sciences as “based on objectivity, truth, and empirical verification as the only method of approaching reality” (Duarte L., Alonso G., 2008). However, at present there is a controversy regarding the status of communication, that status is uncertain (see Kulczycki, 2008; Wedland, 2013). 2. FIVE CAUSES (A) The first cause of communication as discipline without accredited title and object is the effervescence of the theoretical-scientific and applicative researches in a knowledge area full of promises. The fourth and the fifth decades of the 20 th Century were the beginning of the RETRACTED RETRACTED RETRACTED RETRACTED International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences Online: 2014-02-08 ISSN: 2300-2697, Vol. 21, pp 100-106 doi:10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.21.100 2014 SciPress Ltd, Switzerland SciPress applies the CC-BY 4.0 license to works we publish: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/