Direct Realism

The theory that we see the world around us as it truly is

The theory that we can see objects

The theory that we are connected with objects

The theory that we only perceive a representation of objects

Our perception doesn't ever vary

Our perception is not always the same as what exists

Our bodies change what we perceive

We can change what we perceive

Locke

Hume

Berkeley

Liebniz

Aristotle

Russell

Plato

Descartes

How do we know can we directly perceive if what is exists can be different to our minds

If we can have illusions then we directly perceive what is not real as well

Our whole perception experience could just be an illusion

If we were perceiving the world then we wouldn't be able to have perceptions

Hallucinations mean that we cannot directly perceive the world because we directly perceive them

We directly perceive everything, including hallucinations

We could just be hallucinating everything so we wouldn't be directly perceiving

We can also perceive what is in our mind, so how can we know an external world exists

The 8 minute delay is the time it takes to process the information, so we cannot be directly perceiving

Everything we perceive has already happened, so we cant be directly perceiving it

The 8 minute delay is how long it takes for sense data to travel from object of perception to perceiver

We cant perceive something that has already happened