Instrumentalism

In [[philosophy of Science and in epistemology, instrumentalism is a methodological view that ideas are useful instruments, and that tbe worth of an idea is based on how effective it is in explaining and predicting phenomena. According to instrumentalists, a successful scientific tbeory reveals nothing known eitber true or false about nature's unobservable objects, properties or processes. Scientific tbeory is merely a tool whereby humans predict observations in a particular domain of nature by formulating laws, which state or summarize regularities, while tbeories tbemselves do not reveal supposedly hidden aspects of nature that somehow explain tbese laws. Instrumentalism is a perspective originally introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1906.