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realism is, at the most general level, the view that the world
described by science (perhaps ideal science) is the real world,
as it is, independent of what we might take it to be. Within
philosophy of science, it is often framed as an answer to the
question "how is the success of science to be explained?" The
debate over what the success of science involves centers
primarily on the status of unobservable entities apparently
talked about by scientific theories. Generally, those who are
scientific realists assert that one can make reliable claims
about unobservables (viz., that they have the same ontological
status) as observables, as opposed to instrumentalism. Main
features of scientific realism  Scientific realism involves two
basic positions. First, it is a set of claims about the features
of an ideal scientific theory; an ideal the