The rhetorical theory of everything and nothing, or “The colander of Shilov”
A.S. Nilogov
Keywords: the rhetorical theory of number, Shilov, mathematics, pseudo-mathematics, number, infinity, prime number
Abstract
In the review of S.Ye. Shilov's book “The rhetorical theory of number” we expose the example of modern Russian pseudo-mathematics. Declaring scientific revolutionism of the rhetorical theory of number, its author ventures to discredit not only linguistics and philosophy, but also mathematics and physics. In its content, Shilov's book is an attempt to perform a philosophic analysis of the nature of number, but since the author is weak in mathematics he failed to draw adequate scientific conclusions.
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