author: Manuel de Landa
content: Idealists have it easy. Their reality is uniformly populated by appearances
  or phenomena, structured by linguistic representations or social conventions, so
  they can feel safe to engage in metaphysical speculation knowing that the contents
  of their world have been settled in advance. Realists, on the other hand, are committed
  to assert the autonomy of reality from the human mind, but then must struggle to
  define what inhabits that reality.
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