Scientific realism is an area of study in the philosophy of science and has a contrasting view called anti realism. ... Realism, as affirmed by Brown, is determined by scientific success, which is best determined by theories that, first, "are able to organize and unify a great variety of unknown phenomena.... Like many debates in philosophy realism and anti realism has an immense grey area. ... After carefully assessing realism and anti realism, I adhere to Brown's argument of novel predictions in support of scientific realism. ...

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