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Author Topic:   Reality is not based upon our perception.
nwr
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Message 3 of 37 (345923)
09-02-2006 12:41 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Christian7
09-01-2006 9:09 PM


Naive realism
The position you are supporting is known as naive realism. If you google that term, you will come up with a number of interesting links.
Naive realism is obviously wrong. A color blind person will perceive the world differently from a normal person. So the color blind person and the normal person cannot both be right.
However, naive realism might well be close enough for practical purposes.

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nwr
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Message 8 of 37 (346027)
09-02-2006 12:53 PM
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09-02-2006 11:21 AM


Re: Naive realism
Then I think you are mainly arguing against Berkeley's idealism. However, idealism doesn't seem to have much credibility these days.
Or perhaps you are arguing against social constructivism. I guess I would consider myself a kind of constructivist, but I don't think you would find my version of constructivism to be particularly bothersome. If you took a geometry class, you may have learned how to construct an angle bisector. That we construct the angle bisector does not contradict that it exists independent of our construction. Construction can be a method of discovery.

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