Naive Realism
People may experience their own perceptions as objective and disagreement as evidence of others' bias.
The Mechanism: Naive realism describes a tendency to experience one's own view as a direct, objective reading of reality. When others disagree, people may attribute the difference to ignorance, bias, or bad motives.
The Philosophical Pivot: Perception is real but situated; attention, prior belief, and social position affect what becomes salient. Recognizing perspective does not require abandoning truth or evidence.
The Horizon: Disagreement can become more productive when people identify what evidence would change their minds and represent opposing views fairly. This is harder when identity and moral stakes are high.
The concept can itself be misused as a weapon: calling another person naive may protect one's own assumptions from scrutiny.
Objectivity is better approached as a practice of correction than a feeling of certainty.
The strongest feeling that I see clearly may be the moment to check what I am not seeing.
What would I need to learn about another person's perspective before deciding their disagreement is simply bias?