This may be entirely tangential, so I will couch the question with reference to your metaphor instead of to something more complicated.
Do you believe there is something inherent to the way in which the third umpire experiences ‘reality’ which negates the existence of “the Intrinsic Nature of Reality”, or is it possible to believe that such a Platonic Ideal exists while still believing that it is impossible to experience that ideal directly?
Many, what I will call, “casual” post modernists that I have met (almost always on college campuses, almost always young, smug, self-assured and rarely as smart as they think they are) seem to interpret the post-modern condition not as an indictment against our ability to experience the Platonic Ideal directly, but against the existence of a Platonic Ideal. The existence of any “reality” outside our own descriptions of the reality we experience is not only meaningless, but an intellectual trap. Nothing exists beyond our experience of it.
This has always struck me as being very problematic, and within the context of our faith, irreconcilable. While we may not be able to know G-d as an existence outside our limited, human perspective, is it not inherent to our faith to believe that G-d does exist outside of ourselves in that sense?

~jhimm
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it’s smarter to be lucky
than
it’s lucky to be smart.