Does science offer a way to learn what is true about our world? According to the perspective in philosophy of science known as scientific realism , the answer is ‘yes’. Scientific realism is the idea that successful scientific theories that have made novel predictions give us a good reason to believe these theories make statements about the world that are at least partially true.
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