In other words, he cared less about championing chance than fighting against naive realism.
For the psychological theory called "naive realism", see naïve realism (psychology)
First is the ordinary naive realism.
That was merely a "crude and naive realism of what 'appearances of Jesus'" meant.
Biases including the following have been argued to be caused at least partially by naive realism:
This is an illustration of what is sometimes referred to as contextuality, and is related to naive realism about operators.
Thus, disjunctivism is a form of naive realism or direct realism.
Most Classic Islamic Philosophers believed in a naive realism or intuition based theories for achieving knowledge from the external world.
Within the biological study of perception naive realism is unusable.
However, outside biology modified forms of naive realism are defended.