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Front．Philos．China2014，9(3)：431_440 i三 DOI10．3868／s030．003—014．0036．2 YUGUoFei ientificRealism andtheMeaningsof eoreticaITerms Abstract In contemporaryphilosophy ofscience，therearemany interesting argumentsforandagainstscientificrealism withregardtothemeaningfulness and truthfulnessoftheoreticalstatements．Someanti．realistshold thatsince many importantconceptsin scientifictheorieshaveno specificreferents，the relevanttheoreticalstatementsarethereforeeitherfalseormeaningless．Inthis essay,Iiointhedebatesconcemingtheplausibilityofscientificrealism by ofcusing ontwointertwinedissues：first，thatofhow wecanweexplicatethe meaningfulnessoftheoreticalstatements，especially statementspertaining to unobservableobiects，andsecond，thatofthemeaningfulnessoftheoreticaI statementsofrouracceptanceofscientificrealism． Keywords theoreticalterms，reference，turth，scientificrealism 1 TheoreticalTermsandMeaning In e Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy．MichaelDevitt distinguishesbewt een wto differentofmr sofrealism：common senserealism， whereintokensofcurrent．observable．commonsenseandscientifiCphysica1types existobjectivelyandindependentlyofthemental；andscientiticrealism．wherein tokensofmostcurrentunobservablescientiticphysica1typesexistindependently ofthemenat1．JamesLadyman，meanwhile，givesamoredetailedaccountof scientific realism．involving three kinds ofphilosophicalcommitments： “a metaphysicalcommitmentto the existence ofa mnid．independentworld of observableandunobservableobjects；a semanticcommitmenttotheliteral interpretation Ofscientifictheoriesandacorrespondencetheory oftruth；and IfollowMichaelDevi~’Sformulationinasimplifiedmanner(Devitt1997，24) ReceivedJanuary 2012 YUGUOFei(因) DepartmentofPhilosophy,SchoolofHumanities，YunnanUniversity，Kunming650091，China E—mail：fyuguo@gmail．corn 432 YUGU0 Fei finallyanepistemologicalcommitmenttothe