title: An " Instrumentalism to Realism " Hypothesis creator: Abbas, Dr. Afsar subject: Philosophy of Science description: 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. date: 2005-11 type: Preprint type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/4618/1/psi2r.pdf identifier: Abbas, Dr. Afsar (2005) An " Instrumentalism to Realism " Hypothesis. [Preprint] relation: http://cogprints.org/4618/