The paper shows that Bohr's philosophical views were formed by the Danish existentialism and the American pragmatism. These currents had impact on Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics. There is, for example, a similarity between Kierkegaard's philosophical theory of jumps and Bohr's conception of the existence of unforeseeable and completely discontinuous quantum change of energy level in atoms. In Bohr's new philosophical ideas also impact of W. James' views may be traced. Under that influence, there originated such Bohr's ideas as thesis on the arbitrariness of border between observer and the object observed or the idea of uncontrollable interaction between both of them
In the paper, the author addresses the situation of the classical theory of truth and of the postulate of rationality of procedures of justification after the discovery of quantum of action, creation of quantum mechanics an its Copenhagen interpretation. He shows, that this interpretation undermines general significance of the classical theory of truth as well as of the postulate of rationality of procedures of justification.
The paper reveals various subject loadings of the ontological scientific realism idea. The author shows that the belief on the objective reality existence is matter of faith, and the opinion on the real existence of particular elements in this reality depend on subject's volition. Taking this into account, the author concludes that the ontological scientific realism is wholly arbitrary. In spite of the arbitrariness, this realism stimulates scientific investigations, and, possibly, even makes them possible.
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