George Fox University, Oregon, USA
Abstract. This essay takes on two
challenges to universal pluralistic antirealism (UPA). One of those
challenges is successful, so the universality of UPA is not entirely
plausible. However, I propose that the best way to remain as close to
the spirit of UPA is to be a theist. God is the only thing that needs to
be outside the universal claim of UPA. However, even God is what God is
partially within human noetic schemes. Since God is "in the mix" with
humans in terms of being a concept-user, God's presence can solve the
other challenge to UPA. UPA is thus replaced by nearly universal
pluralistic antirealism (NUPA). The difference between UPA and NUPA, in
the end, is not very great.
