If the lecturer agrees with this rephrasing and agrees that the word “reality” can indeed be tabooed for this purpose, then there is hope, but I’d expect he won’t (you don’t phrase things in confused terminology if you understand how to phrase them in a much more reasonable manner). It’s probably a decades-old argument about definitions (that doesn’t realize that it’s an argument about definitions), which learned to protect itself from most patterns of rational argument, and most of the subject matter is about how to not notice the error at the center of it all.
If the lecturer agrees with this rephrasing and agrees that the word “reality” can indeed be tabooed for this purpose, then there is hope, but I’d expect he won’t (you don’t phrase things in confused terminology if you understand how to phrase them in a much more reasonable manner). It’s probably a decades-old argument about definitions (that doesn’t realize that it’s an argument about definitions), which learned to protect itself from most patterns of rational argument, and most of the subject matter is about how to not notice the error at the center of it all.