oh, well, james, think of it as more akin to virginal realism--that sweet innocence before the dastardly interpretivists and postmodernists came along.
i was doing it in chunks so carrol could maybe finally see how he misuses and abuses his claims about platonic idealism.
'naive', as you ought to know, signifies the naivete involved in presuming that humans can unproblematically construct conceptual tools and theories of the objective world, theories and conceptual tools that are somehow not shaped by the political economies within which they are conceived.
now, please at least go re-read Hempel's concession speech to the interpretivists, Philosophy of Natural Science.