The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
Published 2020 · 272 pages · 74,800 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes to read?
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes scores 58 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
- Cognitive-science and mathematical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear sentences carrying a counterintuitive case.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Perception and reality argued at high abstraction.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Dense with modelling and experiment.
How The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes is regarded
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes holds a literary regard score of 36 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.