Naïve Realism and Amnesia
Naïve realism is the belief that we see the world exactly as it is, without objective or bias from influence of upbringing. Consequentially, naïve realism can pose an important problem when judging appearances as well as evaluating the objectives and biases of ourselves and those around us. For instance, if one was out in public with their partner, they may both exhibit different levels of comfort with reagrds to public affection without realizing that they most likely mediate different social attitudes, ideological beliefs, preferences, cultural and religious backgrounds, and biased personal interests, and each will assume the other is wrong. One’s instinctual common sense will tell them that their own opinion
Naïve realism is the belief that we see the world exactly as it is, without objective or bias from influence of upbringing. Consequentially, naïve realism can pose an important problem when judging appearances as well as evaluating the objectives and biases of ourselves and those around us. For instance, if one was out in public with their partner, they may both exhibit different levels of comfort with reagrds to public affection without realizing that they most likely mediate different social attitudes, ideological beliefs, preferences, cultural and religious backgrounds, and biased personal interests, and each will assume the other is wrong. One’s instinctual common sense will tell them that their own opinion