@misc{cogprints4618,
           month = {November},
           title = {An " Instrumentalism to Realism " Hypothesis},
          author = {Dr. Afsar Abbas},
            year = {2005},
        keywords = {realism, antirealism, instrumentalism},
             url = {http://cogprints.org/4618/},
        abstract = {
It is proposed here that all successful and complete theories always proceed through an intermediate stage of instrumentalism to the final stage of realism. Examples from history of science ( both classical and modern ) in support of this hypothesis are presented.
}
}

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