Naïve has several meanings depending on discipline. In the social aspect naïve is to have lack of experience with a certain activity, which could be anything from politics to romantic relationships. Being naïve also means being innocent and having ineptitude in matters. Naïve can also refer to a branch in Mathematics known as Naïve Mathematics or Informal Mathematics. This form of maths that was used by ancient people or by aboriginals, is understood intuitively and then justified by examples, this has helped the disciplines of psychology and anthropology have an understanding of how early humans perceived their relationships with numbers and objects.
Another use of the word is with physics, people use physics on a daily basis without actually realising they are doing it. Naïve physics is the untrained human perception of the basic physical phenomena; this is used quite extensively in the field of artificial intelligence and is used to give an understanding of the common knowledge of human beings. Naïve physics is generally simplifications or misperceptions of well-understood phenomena and after much observation the emerging results is that these understandings of the physical world are innate in all of us. Some of these simplifications are simple physics such as gravity, what goes up must come down; every human being (ability permitting) will experience watching a dropped object without consulting any studies from Newton first would have come to the conclusion that objects drop in a straight line. As with knowing after probably much trial and error with those toy wooden shapes and coordinating holes that a solid object cannot pass through another solid object later we discovered that tight bonds between the atoms would not allow it, so the informal becomes the formal.
Another use of the word is with physics, people use physics on a daily basis without actually realising they are doing it. Naïve physics is the untrained human perception of the basic physical phenomena; this is used quite extensively in the field of artificial intelligence and is used to give an understanding of the common knowledge of human beings. Naïve physics is generally simplifications or misperceptions of well-understood phenomena and after much observation the emerging results is that these understandings of the physical world are innate in all of us. Some of these simplifications are simple physics such as gravity, what goes up must come down; every human being (ability permitting) will experience watching a dropped object without consulting any studies from Newton first would have come to the conclusion that objects drop in a straight line. As with knowing after probably much trial and error with those toy wooden shapes and coordinating holes that a solid object cannot pass through another solid object later we discovered that tight bonds between the atoms would not allow it, so the informal becomes the formal.
