Full Idea
The strangeness of interpreting theories as mere tools for organising present experience is brought out clearly in sciences like cosmology and paleontology, which largely concern events in the remote past or future.
Gist of Idea
Theories aren't just for organising present experience if they concern the past or future
Source
Geoffrey Gorham (Philosophy of Science [2009], 4)
Book Reference
Gorham,Geoffrey: 'Philosophy of Science' [One World 2009], p.103
A Reaction
Not conclusive. An anti-realist has to interpret those sciences in terms of the current observations that are available.