What Is Naive Realism, Why Is It Important, and How Does It Impact the Way We Live?

Is it a Form of the Post-Truth Era?

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“We all start from “naive realism,” i.e., the doctrine that things
are what they seem. We think that grass is green, that stones
are hard, and that snow is cold. But physics assures us that the
greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and the coldness of
snow are not the greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and
the coldness of snow that we know in our own experience, but
something very different.” — Bertrand Russell

We are often fooled by reality because we are too naive to see the truth. Our minds are so gullible that it sees what it wants to see and not what is there. 

It is also because our brain tends to want to make sense of things, even if they don’t make sense.