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: Physicists do of course carry around with them a working philosophy.

For most of us, it is a rough-and-ready realism, a belief in the objective reality of the ingredients of our scientific theories.

But this has been learned through the experience of scientific research and rarely from the teachings of philosophers.

(...) we should not expect philosophy of science to provide today's scientists with any useful guidance about how to go about their work or about what they are likely to find.

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