6 distinguish between naive realism and scientific realism?
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As already mentioned in others answers, there is no fundamental difference between naive and scientific realism. They are all internal representations of an assumed external reality in our minds (or the minds of any other living being from bacterium to dinosaur), with various degrees of sophistication and predictive power. They are so far acceptable, as long as the model behaves more or less like the ‘observed reality’. Plants know and rely on the alternance of day and night, and of seasons, but they do not care about astronomy.
Science only extends our individual mind, by an abstract ‘collective mind’ shared by a population thru accurate communication capabilities. Its relative quality is only due to the fact, that it relies on a much broader set of observations.
I would only add, that reality by itself, is just what happens now and here, and it cannot be observed ‘directly’ by any event outside itself. It can only be ‘observed’ by external entities thru the (imperfect) ‘mirror’ of a subset of its effects, long after it happened (even if only a few picoseconds later).
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