Is Instrumentalism Used as an Explanation?

Instrumentalism is a widespread way of thinking about physics at least, as far as I can tell in my field. And probably it's very, I mean, I can guess it's a thing that affects all sciences. It starts from a good intention but then becomes a barrier to making progress and asking the right questions. For example, there are some questions in the foundations of quantum theory that have been asked now for more than a century. This has created a huge amount of confusion. So this is an example where this kind of thinking isn't helpful. The fact that these solutions were taken on board by the whole community is largely due to some philosophical bias which makes us focus on the

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