This article analyze the so called "Texts  question", a political and philosophical debate that took place in Colombia in 1870, about the scientific nature of the "Elements of ideology'' From the French Philosopher Desttut de Tracy. The article analyzes the debate's origin, the implicated actors and how this polemic declared an epistemological break that implied a new way to conceive the sciences, the language and the pedagogy in Colombia.
This breaks determinate the local appropriation conditions from the positive sciences that emerged as the axe of modernity al the end of XIX century. Finally, there are hypothesis proposed about the experimental medicine method from the French Physician Claude Bernard as well as knowledge theory which enable the entry to an experimental episteme which had to be assumed by the incipient Colombian intellectuals.