naïvely

naïvely
In a naïve manner.

I do not want to spend long in examining the arguments for this general deprecation of sense-perception or the intellectual motives for denying all credentials to sense-perception in order to enhance those of calculation, demonstration or religious faith. I want to get quickly to the much thornier briar-patch, the place, namely, where scientific accounts of perception seem to issue in the consequential doctrine that observers, including the physiologists and psychologists themselves, never perceive what they naïvely suppose themselves to perceive.


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  • naively — na [ i]ve ly, adv. In a na[ i]ve manner. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • naively — adv. Naively is used with these verbs: ↑believe, ↑imagine …   Collocations dictionary

  • naively — naive (also naïve) ► ADJECTIVE 1) lacking experience, wisdom, or judgement. 2) (of art or an artist) produced in or adopting a simple, childlike style which deliberately rejects sophisticated techniques. DERIVATIVES naively adverb. ORIGIN French …   English terms dictionary

  • naively — adverb in a naive manner he believed, naively, that she would leave him her money • Derived from adjective: ↑naive …   Useful english dictionary

  • naively — adverb see naive …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • naïvely — adverb see naive …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • naively — See naive. * * * …   Universalium

  • naively — adverb In a naive manner …   Wiktionary

  • naively — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. childishly, ingenuously, stupidly; see foolishly , openly 1 …   English dictionary for students

  • naively — nÉ‘ ɪːvlɪ /naɪ ɪːvlɪ adv. in a naive manner, unsuspectingly, in manner which is not worldly wise, gullibly; childishly, innocently, unsophisticated …   English contemporary dictionary

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