Dope, it was nice to check and see that contrary to what I expect, it’s not always being used that way :)
Some idle musings on using naive to convey specific content.
Sometimes I might want to communicate that I think someone’s wrong, and I also think they’re wrong in a way that’s only likely to happen if they lack experience X. Or similar, they are wrong because they haven’t had experience X. That’s something I can imagine being relevant and something I’d want to communicate. Though I’d specifically want to mention the experience that I think they’re lacking. Otherwise it feels like I’m asserting “there just is this thing that is being generally privy to how things work” and you can be privy or not, which feels like it would pull me away from looking at specific things and understanding how they work, and instead towards trying to “figure out the secret”. (This is less relevant to your post, because you are actually talking about things one can do)
There’s another thing which is in between what I just mentioned, and “naive” as a pure intentional put-down. It’s something like “You are wrong, you are wrong because you haven’t had experience X, and everyone who has had experience X is able to tell that you are wrong and haven’t had experience X.” The extra piece here is the assertion that “there are many people who know you are wrong”. Maybe those many people are “us”, maybe not. I’m having a much harder time thinking of an example where that’s something that’s useful to communicate, and is too close asserting group pressure for my liking.
Dope, it was nice to check and see that contrary to what I expect, it’s not always being used that way :)
Some idle musings on using naive to convey specific content.
Sometimes I might want to communicate that I think someone’s wrong, and I also think they’re wrong in a way that’s only likely to happen if they lack experience X. Or similar, they are wrong because they haven’t had experience X. That’s something I can imagine being relevant and something I’d want to communicate. Though I’d specifically want to mention the experience that I think they’re lacking. Otherwise it feels like I’m asserting “there just is this thing that is being generally privy to how things work” and you can be privy or not, which feels like it would pull me away from looking at specific things and understanding how they work, and instead towards trying to “figure out the secret”. (This is less relevant to your post, because you are actually talking about things one can do)
There’s another thing which is in between what I just mentioned, and “naive” as a pure intentional put-down. It’s something like “You are wrong, you are wrong because you haven’t had experience X, and everyone who has had experience X is able to tell that you are wrong and haven’t had experience X.” The extra piece here is the assertion that “there are many people who know you are wrong”. Maybe those many people are “us”, maybe not. I’m having a much harder time thinking of an example where that’s something that’s useful to communicate, and is too close asserting group pressure for my liking.