Full Idea
Indirect realism holds that in perception we are indirectly aware of the physical objects around us in virtue of a direct awareness of internal, non-physical objects.
Clarification
'Indirect realism' is representative realism
Gist of Idea
Internal realism holds that we perceive physical objects via mental objects
Source
Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 10.4)
Book Reference
Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.152
A Reaction
This may be a slightly prejudicial definition which invites insoluble questions about the ontological status of the internal 'objects'. It seems to me obvious that we create some sort of inner 'models' or constructions in the process of perception.