Full Idea
My view is that we see objects 'directly' by representing them in visual experience.
Gist of Idea
We see objects 'directly' by representing them
Source
Colin McGinn (Subjective View: sec qualities and indexicals [1983], Ch.8 n1)
Book Reference
McGinn,Colin: 'The Subjective View' [OUP 1983], p.129
A Reaction
[Quoted by Maund] This rejects both inference in perception and sense-data, while retaining the notion of representation. It is a view which has gained a lot of support. But how can it be direct if it represents? Photographs can't do that.
Related Idea
Idea 22107 Sensations are transmitted to 'internal senses' in the brain, chiefly to 'phantasia' and 'imagination' [Aquinas, by Kretzmann/Stump]