Appealing to commonsense realism to refute philosophy implicitly restores religious belief.

Evidence

It follows therefore that to base oneself on this experience of common sense in order to destroy the subjectivist conception by “poking fun” at it has a rather “reactionary” significance, an implicit return to religious feeling. Indeed Catholic writers and orators have recourse to the same means in order to obtain the same effect of corrosive ridicule. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1567

Categorization

• XREF: Methodological point that carries into Islamophobia analysis: ridiculing a theory by appealing to received common sense is itself a political move, not neutral — connects to how ‘everyone knows’ framing works in anti-Muslim discourse. — connects to: Materialism opposes religion while realism opposes speculation and transcendence; Commonsense objections hinder the popular spread of idealist philosophy — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1575; The hard problem of consciousness functions as religiosity smuggled into secular philosophy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2401