That’s a practical way of looking at things that works well until it doesn’t. And it doesn’t work more frequently than we imagine.
People ask me what I do and I say I’m a product manager. This is an immediate perception - it says so on my business card - but there is a limit to its truth depending on the definition of product manager in the minds of those hearing my statement. Product management varies wildly across the industry and I am most certainly not a product manager in certain industries.
So no, there isn’t a hierarchy. There are several billion different views of how concepts map to reality that often (depending on the circumstances) pragmatically align.
The thing about your example is you're describing a truth supplanted by more detail. That's completely different from the philosophical position of the truth being fundamentally out of reach.
As others have noted, the article substitutes a sort-of pop psychology idea of naive realist for the philosophical idea.
People ask me what I do and I say I’m a product manager. This is an immediate perception - it says so on my business card - but there is a limit to its truth depending on the definition of product manager in the minds of those hearing my statement. Product management varies wildly across the industry and I am most certainly not a product manager in certain industries.
So no, there isn’t a hierarchy. There are several billion different views of how concepts map to reality that often (depending on the circumstances) pragmatically align.