科か学がく的てき実じつ在ざい論ろん

noun

scientific realism

A philosophical position in the philosophy of science, asserting that scientific theories aim to describe reality and that unobservable entities posited by science genuinely exist.

• 科か学がく的てき実じつ在ざい論ろんは、科か学がく理り論ろんが世せ界かいの真しんの姿すがたを記き述じゅつすると主しゅ張ちょうする立たち場ばである。

  Scientific realism is the position that scientific theories describe the true nature of the world.