Full Idea
For a direct realist our awareness of colour and heat can hardly be of a different order from our awareness of shape and size. Both sorts of properties are presented with equal directness.
Gist of Idea
For direct realists the secondary and primary qualities seem equally direct
Source
Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 10.3)
Book Reference
Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.150
A Reaction
This is a good objection to 'direct scientific realism', which claims direct apprehension of primary qualities alongside a totally relative view of secondary qualities. The best response seems to be to move to a representative view of primary properties.