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I agree that we don't want to get preoccupied with semantics, but also that clarifying bigger picture presumptions (philosophy?) sometimes actually can prove useful in more particular cases. Maybe this is one of them? I'm not sure everyone in the class (to say nothing of the world) is ready to buy the story that "reality is only our perception," nor that science isn't about facts or Truths (see mental health: sense, certainty, uncertainty, usefulness). And my guess is that having those ideas "at the forefront of your thought" may be particularly important in the mental health arena (see Mental health and reality, multiple words). Might we, for example, approach mental health differently, both theoretically and practically, if we didn't assume that a "motivation to move forward" depends on "reality or Truths outside our perception"? Hmmmm, maybe we'd approach it differently if we better understood what you have in mind by that phrase, particularly the "outside our perception" part of it.