| 21337 | A knowing being possesses a further reality, the 'presence' of the thing known [Aquinas] |
| 22130 | Scotus defended direct 'intuitive cognition', against the abstractive view [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
| 3943 | If existence is perceived directly, by which sense; if indirectly, how is it inferred from direct perception? [Berkeley] |
| 23662 | The existence of ideas is no more obvious than the existence of external objects [Reid] |
| 14866 | It always remains possible that the world just is the way it appears [Nietzsche] |
| 21537 | I assume we perceive the actual objects, and not their 'presentations' [Russell] |
| 5377 | 'Acquaintance' is direct awareness, without inferences or judgements [Russell] |
| 22160 | Our relationship to a hammer strengthens when we use [Heidegger] |
| 5678 | Scientific direct realism says we know some properties of objects directly [Dancy,J] |
| 5681 | Maybe we are forced from direct into indirect realism by the need to explain perceptual error [Dancy,J] |
| 6549 | I think greenness is a complex microphysical property of green objects [Lycan] |
| 6355 | Direct realism says justification is partly a function of pure perceptual states, not of beliefs [Pollock/Cruz] |
| 6643 | 'Ecological' approaches say we don't infer information, but pick it up directly from reality [Lowe] |
| 19526 | Surely I am acquainted with physical objects, not with appearances? [Williamson] |
| 16374 | There is a continuum from acquaintance to description in knowledge, depending on the link [Recanati] |
| 8417 | Direct realism is false, because defeasibility questions are essential to perceptual knowledge [Galloway] |