ABSTRACT
The reductive and dispositional theories can be nothing more than the best that direct realists can do, given scientific discoveries: they are not an attempt to ‘save the phenomena’ but to ‘save the semantics’. Nevertheless, probably the main stream of intentionalists are mentalists, in the sense that they accept that intentional objects are part of a common factor in experience and they reject the disjunctivism to which standard direct realists are forced to resort. In some sense of the term, perception involves judgements about what confronts one in the world. According to most modern philosophers, the notion of judgement involves propositions or concepts and so is more sophisticated than most or perhaps any animals can manage. The Primitivist about colour is a naive realist and thinks that visual contact with the world consists in an awareness relation with the surface properties of objects.
