ABSTRACT
The key debate in the meta-ontological terrain is between realists who frequently assume notions like truth and objectivity on the one hand, and anti-realists who deny the relevance of these notions as being in one way or another inherently problematic on the other. A very frequent stance towards metaphysics aims at establishing a distinction between scientific ontology which is constrained by the truth of basic assumptions and evidence, and philosophical or speculative ontology which has a greater degree of freedom and has a conceptual orientation. The only crucial point is to remember that any additional requirement of naturalising metaphysics is redundant and contradictory to the idea of the cognitional priority of ontological assumptions – since world-imageries are cognitionally prior to epistemology and methodology, as well as empirical investigations. Gnoseology is the missing link between analytic philosophy and the theoretical component of the human sciences.
