ABSTRACT
Kirk (1999: 139-41), however, argues that the global realist is not really committed to the idea of a God’s eye view at all. After all, it is the global anti-realist, and not the realist, who holds that truth must be truth from some perspective. And, arguably, it is that thought that generates the idea that, if truth is independent of our theorising or our available evidence or our conceptual scheme, then there must be some perspective from which our theories or conceptual scheme can be seen to be in error, or perhaps incomplete. However, of course, the realist just denies all of this: the realist is, or should be, happy to hold that there may be facts about the nature of reality that cannot be grasped from any perspective that we can even begin to imagine.
