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Full Idea
A sense-datum theory might be called a representative realism because it conceives perception as a relation in which sense-data represent perceived external (hence real) objects to us. For Locke they were resemblances only of primary qualities.
Gist of Idea
Sense data imply representative realism, possibly only representing primary qualities
Source
Robert Audi (Epistemology: contemporary introduction [1998], I p.33)
Book Ref
Audi,Robert: 'Epistemology: a contemporary introduction' [Routledge 1998], p.33