The Naïve Realism Theory

Naïve Realism is a theory that the world is perceived exactly how it is, and can be thought of as the commonsense theory of humans perception. Naïve Realism says that the world that we experience through our senses is acceptable, meaning that the objects we discover with our senses are there, and they have the properties we see them to have. Although Naïve Realism, as a theory may seem very plausible, it has one major problem; that being that human perceptions vary, and what might seem to be to one person, may not to another. So to make this theory reasonable, it is thought that all objects are the same as they always were, only our experiences of them are changed or different. Descartes began with the idea of Naïve Realism, under which he wanted to determine if we could be sure of anything, and for this to be true to Descartes, something has to be “stable and enduring”. For this to be true to him the beliefs could never be wrong. According to Descartes methodology is to determine whether beliefs are completely reliable and to do this one must be completely positive in the certainty of the belief, and to be certain is to be free of doubt. So Descartes searches for certainty through the methods of Naïve Realism, and in this search senses are observed and used to determine if a …show more content…
Material substance doe not exist according to him, and that regularities deny that ideas are casual. Also Berkeley supports the ideas of mind and spirit existence so he says that a spirit is responsible for all of these regularities. So when something is not around to perceive something happening, Berkeley assumes that God perceives it. For Berkeley the external world exists because God always perceives it. This makes the argument about “external world skepticism” unreasonable in Berkeley’s terms because it exists because of