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Definition of Naive realism

1. Noun. (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived.

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Literary usage of Naive realism

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1. The Problem of Knowledge by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1915)
"In the present chapter we shall deal only with the antecedents of this new realism, including under this caption, first, naive realism and the "natural ..."

2. Essays, Philosophical and Psychological: In Honor of William James by William James, Columbia University (1908)
"... naive realism; WHAT IS IT? Br DICKINSON S. the most recent tendencies to be observed here and there in metaphysical speculation there is one at least ..."

3. The Respective Standpoints of Psychology and Logic by Mathilde Castro (1913)
"It is equally possible to pass from an idealism of this sort to naive realism. If thought can be thus occupied only with its own discursive activity, ..."

4. Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the by James Ward (1899)
"Experience being then one organic unity, the charge of fallacy against naive realism stands. Concluding remarks on dualism: the problem has been wrongly ..."

5. Introduction to Philosophy: A Handbook for Students of Psychology, Logic by Oswald Külpe (1897)
"naive realism is the view of the great mass of civilised humanity; things or objects are ... Critical realism is naive realism corrected by natural science; ..."

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