Nope! not so fast.
You are not a realist per se, but rather a Philosophical Realist which is a bastardized form of philosophical views.
Btw, I claimed to be an Empirical Realist which is more realistic and can be justified evidentially and philosophically. An empirical realist stance is where the empirical co-entangle with the brain/mind and self/ego as a whole. What-is [reality as it is] in this case is not mind-independent.
You need to understand the term 'idealism'.Among other issues, idealists, who seem literally stuck in an infantile stage of development/understanding, conflate how we know something with what we know.
What we know isn't the same thing as how we know it.
Idealism is the philosophical view that is related to mental-philosophical-ideas.
You are definitely ignorant you are an idealist, i.e. an empirical idealist, because what is empirical to you is confined to your mind/brain only. In your empirical idealism, what-is is independent of your brain/mind. The only way you are in touch with reality is via philosophically-mental-ideas - thus idealism.
The sense of the external independent world is critically necessary for survival but it should not be clung dogmatically like that with Philosophical Realism.
Philosophical Realism aka Empirical Idealism which not realistic nor tenable is more of an ideological, dogmatic and emotional stance rather than dealing with real philosophy proper.
I am aware, empirical claims are not deductive but rather inferential.And talk about ignorance, you're ignorant that empirical claims are not provable. (Re "prove to me ontic facts exist in themselves . . . ")
I am also aware of the limitation of empirical claims, i.e. scientific truth, which according to Popper are merely 'polished conjectures'. But such scientific truths or facts are the best and most credible we have which has highest utility values [while mindful of its negatives].
At present I am reading the following book;
- THE FATE OF ANALYSIS
Analytic Philosophy From Frege To The Ash Heap of History
by Robert Hanna