It is generally agreed that, in its most naive form, this objection to interactionism rests on a 'billiard ball' picture of causation: if all causation is by impact, how can the material and the immaterial impact upon each other?
Although it is often criticized for its optimistic belief in progress and its naive dismissal of history as a factor in human development, the pamphlet remains an important supplement to Whitman's poetry as well as an example of his philosophy of government.
Seen through this prism, then, in its wilfully naive insularity, this song is toxic waste.
To invest too much hope in it would be naive in its turn.The first reason for this is that even if they wanted to help, neither Iran nor Syria can in practice offer all that much in Iraq.
It is embarrassing in its environmentalist extremism and naive exaggeration.
Democrats have largely panned this approach as insufficient in federal support and naive in its hopes for private funding.
But Hammond, who denied that Britain was being naive in its relations with Beijing, questioned whether China was dumping steel on Europe.
Freud's portraiture is consciously naive in its restatement of the portrait's oldest, most utopian purpose: the preservation of the dead.
