Abstract

The paper is an analysis of main arguments for the so-called global antirealism. The arguments assume that: conformity of opinion, actual or potential, in all domains of discourse does not exist; for this reason objectivity must be interpreted as intersubjectivity; different conceptual schemes are employed to interpret different kinds of data, correspondence theory of truth has to be replaced by means of the so called epistemic theory of truth. The arguments assume also the verificationist theory of meaning and the possibility of reduction of all entities to the ones treated as more basic. The author analyses also the relationships between, on the one hand, contemporary forms antirealism and forms of idealism, and, on the other, between forms of global antirealism and some specific forms of local antirealism. Key words GLOBAL ANTIREALISM, IDEALISM, LOCAL ANTIREALISM