Prospects for Extrapolation of G.P. Melnikov’s Systemology Theory to Texts Studies

The systems approach to text research has developed independently of the achievements of systems linguistics and the theory of large systems. How effective and in what respect can systemology be if it is extrapolated to the study of texts? Will we again encounter the scourge of modern humanitarian science, which is in deep crisis, - the mechanical renaming of well-known concepts and provisions, replacing knowledge? In light of these problems, the article considers the prospects of applying the general theory of systems developed by G.P. Melnikov in the study of texts. The study showed that G.P. Melnikov’s understanding of the system, based on the initial concepts of qualitative and boundary properties of the object, the developing content of which is constantly clarified in the course of the reflexive method of reasoning, characteristic of the scientific creativity of the scientist, has high methodological value in the study of texts. The material understanding of the connection between objects as a process of exchanging elements of deeper levels and as the cause of the properties of objects, the dialectical nature of the relationship between connection and property, the specification of the idea of the connectivity of a whole object through the concept of internal closed flows, the application of set theory in determining the function of a particular element, the materiality of the conditions leading to a change in the properties of an object - these and the provisions of G.P. Melnikov’s theory that follow from them have received unconditional confirmation of their validity in the study of texts. At the same time, these provisions acted as a logical justification for the use of a particular method at each stage of text research, confirming precisely the methodological value of the general theory of systems. The universality of the theory presupposes its relative flexibility. It was established that in texts of a deep degree of adaptation, which are perfect systems, such universal properties of connection as intensity, the law of change in intensity, direction, speed, place of transition of the exchanged components, require additional interpretation, and the establishment of a function as a result of mapping one set onto another is complicated by the need to preliminarily establish which elements are put in correspondence with it. Ultimately, the theory developed by G.P. Melnikov’s system of concepts allows us to measure the degree of systematicity of a text based on its measure, and therefore, the degree of its perfection.