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Scientific Realism: A summary

• Scientific realism is the view that the universe described by science is real regardless of how it may be interpreted.
• Scientific realism is often an answer to the question "how is the success of science to be explained?"
• Scientific realism typically involves two basic positions.
• An ideal scientific theory has specific features, including a claim that it says definite things about genuinely existing entities.
• Scientific realism asserts that we have reasons to believe that many scientific claims about entities are true, but not all.
• Scientific realism holds that science makes progress, i.e. scientific theories usually get successively better.
• Scientific realists typically hold certain characteristic claims.
• Scientific realism is related to much older philosophical positions, including rationalism and metaphysical realism.
• Realism became the dominant philosophy of science after positivism.
• Scientific realism is developed largely as a reaction to logical positivism.
• Arguments for scientific realism often appeal to abductive reasoning or "inference to the best explanation."
• Arguments against scientific realism include the no miracles argument, pessimistic induction, constructivist epistemology, the underdetermination problem, and the incompatible models argument.