Abstract This paper discusses Hacking’s experimental realism and suggests a concept of realization to help dissolve the issue about realism. I first rephrase Hacking’s experimental realism by reconstructing it into one thesis and three arguments. Then I consider Resnik’s criticism. According to an adequate interpretation of Hacking’ s experimental realism, Resnik’s objection failed because of his theory realist position. Nevertheless, there are still two problems with the experimental aspect of experimental realism. They are the pessimistic induction of the experimental science argument and the combination of apparatus argument. Hacking himself responded to my two queries in 2008. I also discuss his responses and argue that they are not satisfactory. I offer a new perspective on the realism issue by proposing a set of related concepts, including categorization, realization, and the degree of realization. Finally I show that this conceptual scheme provides a better solution to the two problems and casts new light on the issue of realism