Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2015 8) 919-926 ~ ~ ~ УДК 16 + 165 Continualism by Aleksandr Svitin and Western Scientifi c-Philosophical Tradition: on Grounds of Informational Chemistry Valery V. Mineyev* Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafi ev 89 Ada Lebedeva Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660060, Russia Received 11.09.2014, received in revised form 06.10.2014, accepted 20.12.2014 This article is devoted to the analysis of the monograph by Professor A.P. Svitin “Nondestructive Knowledge: The Sum of Ontologies”. <...> Merits and lacks of the original scientifi c and philosophical concept offered by A.P. Svitin are reconsidered. <...> In particular, an attempt to estimate possibility of continualism in further evolution of a chemical science is undertaken. <...> It is shown that informational chemistry is rather dialectic denial of informational physics, than its direct continuation. <...> Research area: philosophy In postnonclassical science the concept of global evolutionism becomes an interdisciplinary methodological basis of generalization of knowledge and, consequently, a theoretical framework of the updated picture of the world (Jantsch, 9–27). <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: vvmineyev@mail.ru # 919 # scientifi c theories, philosophical doctrines at a time when the materialistic paradigm itself is almost exhausted, and the traditional religious view of the world fails to meet the needs of scientists. <...> We are talking about general scientifi c concepts, in which a variety of generalized knowledge about the mechanisms of evolution and the world is seen as a single self-organizing integrity. <...> The global evolutionism replaced the “local one”, and united such dissimilar authors as Teilhard de Chardin, E. Jantsch, I. Prigozhin, A.P. Nazaretyan (Global’nyi evoliutsionizm) The path to the new synthesis was a long one: general theory of systems, catastrophe theory, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, cybernetics, Valery V. Mineyev. <...> Continualism by Aleksandr Svitin and Western Scientifi c-Philosophical Tradition: on Grounds… synergetics. <...> It has often been noted that the prospects of further development of the global evolutionism are linked to an explanation of the deep unity of the statistical thermodynamic entropy and information treatments (Mineev, 2009, 245–269). <...> In this universe not only electromagnetic waves or molecular genetic codes can work as means of communication, but also symbols of culture <...>