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Convention and consensual nature of scientific knowledge

The article describes the reconstruction of the content of the conventional and consensual interpretation of the nature of scientific knowledge and its truth. It is shown that the consensual concept is a generalization of the conventionalist understanding of it. However, there are fundamental differences between these concepts. They are associated with a different understanding, first, of the subject of scientific knowledge, and, secondly, of the mechanism of legitimation of scientific knowledge. In the conventionalist theory of scientific knowledge an individual scientist is considered to be the subject of scientific knowledge, in the consensual concept it is the disciplinary scientific community. In con-ventionalism, the decision on the truth of any unit of scientific knowledge is made on the basis of conventions, whereas in the consensual concept, such a decision is the result of scientific communications within the scientific community.