<p>Donald Hoffman, in his book <i>The Case Against Reality</i> and in a number of scientific publications (together with several coauthors), has argued that we see <i>none</i> of reality veridically. Supposedly, evolution unavoidably drives organisms with even partially veridical perception to extinction. This conclusion was claimed to follow both from evolutionary game theory-based simulations and from abstract mathematical work. I analyze these arguments in more detail than has been done before, leading to what seem to be novel objections to it: On the one hand, I show that simulations that incorporate aspects of evolution that Hoffman himself acknowledges as valid, yield results inconsistent with Hoffman’s claim. On the other hand, I point out that the attempted inference from the mathematical theorem to Hoffman’s conclusion suffers from a number of problems, including that it relies on an assumption that begs the question against the realist.</p>