Editing Scientific Realism (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''Scientific Realism''' — The view that our best scientific theories give us a true description of the world.
* '''Anti-Realism (Instrumentalism)''' — The view that theories are just useful tools for calculation, not true descriptions of reality.
* '''Unobservable''' — Entities that cannot be seen with the naked eye (e.g., electrons, gravitational waves).
* '''Theoretical Entity''' — A "thing" that is part of a theory but hasn't been directly proven to exist (e.g., String Theory strings).
* '''The No-Miracles Argument''' — The idea that it would be a "miracle" for science to work so well if it weren't actually true.
* '''Pessimistic Meta-Induction''' — The historical observation that almost all past scientific theories have been proven wrong, so current ones likely are too.
* '''Approximate Truth''' — The idea that theories get "closer" to the truth over time.
* '''Structural Realism''' — The middle-ground view that the ''equations'' (the structure) are real, even if the ''objects'' aren't.
* '''Empirical Adequacy''' — When a theory correctly predicts all the data we can observe.
* '''Success of Science''' — The ability of science to build rockets, cure diseases, and create computers.
* '''Underdetermination''' — The fact that multiple different theories can often explain the same set of data.
* '''Constructive Empiricism''' — Bas van Fraassen's view that science only aims for "empirical adequacy," not "truth."
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