id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qnztbaefmveoxaqgb2btldxyxi James Duncan Fraser Renormalization and the Formulation of Scientific Realism 2018 12 .pdf application/pdf 5196 272 51 how realism ought to be formulated from the renormalization group framework in high energy physics. paper is that the renormalization group framework in high energy physics provides for a realist view of quantum field theory (QFT) has been mooted in the past renormalization group plays in identifying aspects of QFT models we should take the connection between empirical success and truth entirely, they typically admit that it gives us grounds to doubt that current theories get everything exactly most fundamental physical theories, QFT and general relativity, furnish mutually us is that many of the claims QFT models make about the world at the fundamental level do not contribute to, and are not supported by, the empirical success This fits well with the effective field theory approach to QFT that has come to dominate high energy physics in the wake of situated in the space of possible theories on which the renormalization group transformation ./cache/work_qnztbaefmveoxaqgb2btldxyxi.pdf ./txt/work_qnztbaefmveoxaqgb2btldxyxi.txt