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You are completely wrong about 'most academics' involved with epistemological and ontological questions. You are using the word 'reality' in a naive absolutist sense..a pov which has been under serious attack since Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'.
I think it can be argued that, a naive absolutist sense, is the philosophical view of the universe that we "as humans" can use to best interpret the information we observing because that is the view we are physically forced to take.
But, the information we are observing was created by someone much older and with greater capabilities than us requiring us to consider an objective idealism in conjunction with a naive realism for a more thorough understanding of the universe and how we as humans should interact with it. I am saying this for 2 reasons.
1. We, as intelligent beings consisting of matter which, consist of atoms that consist of quarks. And, those quarks are embedded in a space we know as the space inside of an atom. And, that space inside the atoms, interacts (through the higgs mechanism) with the space time continuum (we know as the higgs field) which, is the space we live in. These are the embedded layers of information we recognize as the nature. These embedded universes of information interact with each other according to the laws of physics and establish patterns over time that we can recognize with our intelligence. (And, one of those patterns might be water quenches my thirst. So, to obtain water, the atoms of water must contained by the weak electromagnetic forces of the atoms in a glass, that I lift to my mouth with the atoms in my arm to drink.) Now understanding the information stored in the atoms of nature and held together by the strong nuclear force are timeless to us in our everyday lives because, they have been storing that information for eons. But the information stored by the weak-elctro nuclear forces change as atoms react with each other and the Higgs field overtime through processes which we experience overtime. These processes that happen overtime also have patterns that have stood the test of time (Like drinking water quenches thirst.) These patterns are complex, appear to serve a purpose and, would suggest that they were established long ago for these purposes. Assuming that suggestion is true is Idealism because purpose implies intelligence.
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In philosophy, Idealism is the group of metaphysical philosophies that assert that reality, or reality as humans can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, Idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In contrast to Materialism, Idealism asserts the primacy of consciousness as the origin and prerequisite of material phenomena. According to this view, consciousness exists before and is the pre-condition of material existence. Consciousness creates and determines the material and not vice versa. Idealism believes consciousness and mind to be the origin of the material world and aims to explain the existing world according to these principles.
And, since the information in the universe is universally accepted by science to be older than humans, (For instance we know that the light from a galaxy 10,000,000 light years away, contains information about that galaxy, and that information existed and was transmitted 10,000,000 years ago. And, because the spiral shape of the galaxy reveals that everything in that galaxy acts as a systematic unit, and the system is huge.) and, since the information is of such great magnitude, that information had to be established by someone with abilities greater than ours and before we existed.
This would suggest that some sort of Objective Idealism would be an appropriate philosophy to use when explaining the origins of the information in the universe and one I subscribe to.
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Objective idealism posits the existence of an objective consciousness which exists before and, in some sense, independently of human ones. In a sociological sense, idealism emphasizes how human ideas—especially beliefs and values—shape society.[1] As an ontological doctrine, idealism goes further, asserting that all entities are composed of mind or spirit.[2] Idealism thus rejects physicalist and dualist theories that fail to ascribe priority to the mind
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2. We, as intelligent beings, are embedded in a physical system made up of atoms. That small system (contained in our bodies) is embedded in the universe (higgs field) which is a much larger system. To understand how all these interacting and embedded systems are operating as part of an overall universal system we must accept that:
a. The system that we are embedded in and interacting with (the universe) is real, otherwise we also would not be real.
b. We must interact with the system for a period of time to observe the patterns the system reveals as it operates (live to understand).
Which I believe is why we should use Naive Realism as a philosophy to "experience the universe to "understand" it in the context of Objective Idealism.
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For the psychological theory called "naïve realism", see naïve realism (psychology)
Naïve realism argues we perceive the world directly
In philosophy of mind, naïve realism, also known as direct realism, common sense realism or perceptual realism, is the idea that the senses provide us with direct awareness of objects as they really are. Objects obey the laws of physics and retain all their properties whether or not there is anyone to observe them.[1] They are composed of matter, occupy space and have properties, such as size, shape, texture, smell, taste and colour, that are usually perceived correctly.
So we can then decide, if the Intelligence that we logically concluded earlier using Objective Idealism as a philosophy to put into context what we concluded using Naive Realism, is an intelligence worthy of our attempt to understand it. And if so, then try to determine The Intelligence's purpose by observing and experiencing how the system operates to reach a goal (like to raise a healthy family in a loving environment), and various other means (Including Spiritual, Historical Documentation including the fossil record and written, mythology, hear say, philosophical and scientific debate, etc. . .).
Whether you agree or not, Thank you for the education 
I agree with Leadfoot, you probably are a genius.
) to appreciate tthe significance of this with respect to the language games which operate on forums like this.
