Not making an effort. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know. And yet those with the courage to tread this path to real discovery are not only offered practically no guidance on how to do so, they are actively discouraged and have to set about it in secret, pretending meanwhile to be diligently engaged in the frantic diversions and to conform with the deadening personal opinions which are continually being thrust upon them. The Laws of Form. Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
Many people think reality is prosaic.
We don't explain things away in science. We get closer to the mystery. The concept of reality is one that we must learn to get along without, and that the strength of one's impulses to use it is a measure of one's operational weak-mindedness. A third realist position is to assume that the physical world does exist in its own right, but that science has no means of ascertaining whether theories are correct or even probable. This is tantamount to the belief that the world is real but unknowable.