Direct realism entails that perception gives us unmediated access to objects, but perceptual illusions and hallucinations demonstrate that experience can systematically misrepresent the world.

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Direct Realism: The view that we can directly perceive ordinary objects
Hallucinations(the comparison case being analyzed): Experiences where you seem to see, hear, or feel something that isn't actually there—your mind creates the experience without real sensory input.
Misrepresent(as used to describe how anthropocentric thinking gets nature wrong): To describe or portray something in a way that is inaccurate or gives a false impression of what it actually is.
Perceptual illusions(as used in epistemology (the study of how we know things)): Tricks your senses play on you where your eyes or ears report something that isn't actually true, even when you check the facts.
Unmediated access(what direct realism claims perception provides): Getting direct contact with something without anything getting in the way or filtering what you experience; like touching something directly rather than through a thick glove.
perception(Hume's theory of ideas): Any mental activity that brings something before the mind; the basic unit of mental life in Hume's theory of ideas.

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