I'd say there must be at least some distinction as the former category can't encapsulate the latter without an infinite regress.
Actually if they are one and the same, then there is no “former category” that must “encapsulate the latter”, and there is no “infinite regress” to begin with either.
Okay, if you are the one insisting that “there must be at least some distinction” between “knowledge of reality” and “reality”, then say what you KNOW that distinction is? And if you cannot, then your criticism is unwarranted.
For instance, let's say realty = X and knowledge of reality = Y, if Y = X, then you also need to include Y in X, so you would have Z (knowledge of knowledge of reality) = X and Y, and so on ad infinitum.
Strawman. That's isn't what I understand reality to be.
Firstly, not knowing something isn't something you can convey to me. I mean, you can try to attribute your misrepresentation of my position to me, but that's just strawmanning.
So, if you are responding to my post then you must have seen something in my post that you don't know or understand. And if you don't know or understand it, then don't pretend that you know that the other person doesn't know or understand it either. Always presume that the person you are talking to knows something you don't and they are just trying to articulate that something to you.
Actually this how I see it: If in reality X = truth and belief = Y, then in reality X + Y = Z reality and Y + X = reality still. What makes this type of reasoning confusing to some is that both X (truth), Y (belief) and Z reality can only be known and experienced in the one way and place and ONE way and place is a believing mind. And we are all supposed to be capable of a believing mind.
Therefore, if the only way and place that truth, belief and reality can be known and be experienced is a believing mind, then a believing mind is the only way and place that the truth and reality can be known to exist as well. And I say this because; I don't know of another way or place outside of a believing mind that has the capacity to make the truth and reality known and experienced.
You can believe that but that's different from demonstrating it logically.
Actually you can disbelieve whatever you want, but until you believe the truth and reality is unknowable to you.