[MD] Realism and anti-realism

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Ham]
> It's unclear why the author characterized platonists as 
> "realists", inasmuch as Plato is regarded as the father of Idealism.

Platonists (& Plato) are considered realists because the former hold that reality precedes
our IDEA of it.
Plato's "idealism" consisted in his Forms as IDEALs, not as with the Idealists,
that reality consists in our IDEAs.   
Craig