(repeat]Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 7:00 pmYes, yes. I wasn't directly reponding to you. I was just mulling the issues. Seeing if we could get away from some of the words that are being abused. New words can be abused also, but at least in new ways and requiring a little creativity to undermine them also.
My first reaction, now directly responding, is that VA isn't consistant. But otherwise, yes, I think he is reacting to naive realism/direct realism.who believe that they directly perceive the objects out there as they really are. As such, realists cannot believe in the causal chains of perception.
If this sounds completely insane even from VA, that's because it is..
Naive realism is that of the common sense or 'vulgar' kind.
In a philosophical forum, it would be stupid of me to claim all philosophical realists are naive realists.
Most posters here are philosophical realists of either/and metaphysical realism, indirect realism, scientific realism [philosophical], and the like.