 Kuhn's thesis dissolved logical positivism's grip on Western academia, and inductivism fell.Besides Popper and Kuhn, other postpostivist philosophers of science—including Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, and Larry Laudan—have all but unanimously rejected inductivism.Among them, those who have asserted scientific realism—that scientific theory can relaibly approximate true understanding of nature's unobservable aspects—have tended to claim that scientists develop approximately true theories about nature through IBE.