naive belief
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaiveandbelief
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naive
adjective
uk/naɪˈiːv/us/naɪˈiːv/
too willing to believe that someone is telling the truth, that people's intentions in general are good, or that life is simple and fair. People are often naive because they are young and/or have not had much experience ...
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belief
noun[C or S or U]
uk/bɪˈliːf/us/bɪˈliːf/
the feeling of being certain that something exists or ...
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(Definition ofnaiveandbelieffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Each time, the misinterpretation is the same: thenaivebeliefin the other'snaivebelief.
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We see why we cannot be naive enough in attributingnaivebeliefin antifetishism to the iconoclast.
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The revolutionary expansion of mathematics called into question thenaivebeliefin sense data on which positivism seemed to be based.
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But we should not fall into thenaivebeliefthat legal arrangements will cure the cancer.
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Thisnaivebeliefin the absolutism of competition shows an ignorance of port activities and of the industry.
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Abandon thenaivebeliefthat testing of itself drives up standards.
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There is also a rathernaivebeliefone sometimes encounters that so long as we tackle the language problem, everything else will solve itself.
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In recent years thisnaivebeliefhas been somewhat knocked about, but it has survived and now it is justifying itself.
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There is also sometimes a rathernaivebeliefthat so long as we tackle the language problem everything else will solve itself.
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It seemed to me that the two things cancelled one another out and left me with my previousnaivebeliefin the virtues of free speech unimpaired.
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In the old world, people could have anaivebelief, but today belief or unbelief is reflective, and includes a knowledge that other people do or do not believe.
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