9 The apparent realism of naïve realism How really naïve is naïve realism?

What I have been maintaining then is that our models, frames, logical and mathematical formulations about structure and our drawings and frames in the sciences and technologies are always originally created and interpreted technically by proposals that start by using terms from our ordinary language. We seem enamored by the wonderful complexity of our scientific models and we feel much the same with the enormous developments in mathematics that underlines them. We are so enamored and in awe of so much of it that many think that this complexity can only be intuitively grasped and understood from some notion of preexisting mental conditions from eternal forms such as we ...

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