V. Losev: Logic and/or Dialectics. Discontinuity of Numerical Sets as a Form of Expression of Personal Being: Losev, Luzin, Florensky

Aim. This article was brought into being by the attempt to analyze the recent publication of A. F. Losev’s works on the classification of various types of formal logical knowledge and their creative commentary of V. P. Troitsky. The task is to determine the significance of the Losev’s logical thought and the place of the above-mentioned Losev’s text in the history of the overall logical research. Methodology. The procedure for the study of the historical and philosophical phenomenon – logical research in the USSR in the 1920–1940s – is based on the following scientific methods: historical, hermeneutic, nomothetic, ideographic, synchronic, diachronic, as well as the method of comparative analysis. Results. The result of the study was a clearer, more detailed definition of the phenomenon of logical research in the period the 1920–1940s in the overall picture of the history of philosophy of the USSR. Research implications. This work is one of the first studies of the formation of logical thought in the USSR during the designated historical period. Within the framework of the study, different aspects of logical knowledge that have not been studied to date are problematized and special ways of their nowadays actualization are proposed.