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Ideas for 'works', 'An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth' and 'On Body and Force, Against the Cartesians'

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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / a. Naïve realism

4758	Naïve realism leads to physics, but physics then shows that naïve realism is false [Russell]
	Full Idea: Naïve realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows that naïve realism is false. Therefore naïve realism, if true, is false, therefore it is false.
	From: Bertrand Russell (An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth [1940], p.13)
	A reaction: I'm inclined to agree with this, though once you have gone off and explored representation and sense data you may be driven back to naïve realism again.