THE CONCEPT OF OBJECTIVITY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF K.POPPER

Abstract

The work examines two main interpretations of the objectivity of knowledge in the philosophy of K. Popper. The first includes an assessment of the properties of theories, namely, belief in their meaningfulness and/or truth. The second refers to the role of the subject and the scientific community in the process of cognition, with the subject viewed as asource of errors and the community as a source of objectivity. Criticism of the postpositivist direction of the philosophy of science shows the inconsistency of such an approach, therefore, this work proposes an under-standing of the objectivity of knowledge through an appeal to the mechanisms of the subject's perception.