“Creative Realism” and Its Role in Science

Document Type : The Quarterly Jornal

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1 Associate professor, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

2 MA student, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

Most successful scientific theories are intermingled with, and involve the main components of, creative realism. That is, they are structurally related to realistic issues and concepts, and yet they inspire imagination without being grounded in illusions or pre-established principles. Based on theoretical models and by adopting an analytic and library method, this article seeks to provide an analysis of creative realism as part of the process of discovering new theories and notions in science. We conclude that notions of creative realism cannot be achieved without structural connection and imaginative provocation, since structural connection preserves the most crucial similarities and the deepest features of the previous notion in the present notion, and imaginative provocation provides us with consequences of a new notion and effective scientific possibilities in the relevant field of cognition. The criteria for evaluation of creative realism are powerful epistemic means by awareness of which scientists and inventors can achieve the features of a notion which increases creative realism.

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