Direct Realism: A Study of Perception

or their surfaces can be translated without remainder into descriptions of ob­ jects that are neither material objects or surfaces of any material object. All of these claims have historically conspired to discredit Direct Realism. But Direct Realism can accommodate all of the premises of the three argu­ ments without admitting any of their conclusions. Inferential perceptual knowledge assumes a kind of knowledge that is not inferential. Without this assump­ tion, we are given a vicious inf...