... perceptions. For example, if I see a chair, according to naïve realism, the chair must exist since my perception of it alone is enough to verify this as fact. Now suppose I close my eyes for a few seconds and, upon opening them again, the chair has vanished; if no one else has touched the chair how, using solely the naïve realist's thinking am I to discern whether these events were real or not? Further problems arise as, unlike representative realism, the perception of objects is in the public space. If this is so, then why is it that we do not all receive the same perceptions from the same object? ASSESS REPRESENTATIVE REALISM Representative realism is the view that we perceive the world and everything in it indirectly through the medium of sense data. Unlike naïve realism, representative realism deals with the problem of illusory perceptions, as sense data exists in the ...

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