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The conviction that reality should take notes from your imagination.
means The belief that ideas, mind, or moral ideals shape reality more than brute matter does, or the practice of chasing lofty principles over practical compromise.
from From Greek idea, the perfect form glimpsed by Plato; philosophers later built whole systems insisting mind, not stuff, comes first.
Berkeley's stanceArgued matter doesn't exist without a perceiving mind.
German peakKant, Hegel, and Fichte turned it into systems.
Everyday twistNow mostly means hopeful, slightly naive optimism.