Direct realism

Question 1

What does ontological mean?

Answer 1

relating to what kinds of thing exist and their nature (what it is like)

Question 2

What is Realism?

Answer 2

the view that at least some mind-independent objects exist

Question 3

What is Anti-realism?

Answer 3

the view that no mind-independent objects exist

Question 4

What does Mind-independent mean?

Answer 4

an object or property is mind-independent if it exists independently of all minds and independently of any experience of it

Question 5

What does Mind dependent mean?

Answer 5

an object or property is mind-dependent if it only exists within a mind

Question 6

What does the external world mean?

Answer 6

the reality that consists of all mind-independent objects and their mind-independent properties

Question 7

What is the argument of Direct realism?

Answer 7

The immediate objects of perception are mind-independent objects and their properties. This means that the world as we see it is exactly as we see it.