@article {McDermid:1 January 2001:0165-9227:1, author = "McDermid, Douglas James", title = "WHAT IS DIRECT PERCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE? A FIVEFOLD CONFUSION", journal = "Grazer Philosophische Studien", volume = "62", year = "1 January 2001", abstract = "When philosophers speak of direct perceptual knowledge, they obviously mean to suggest that such knowledge is unmediated - but unmediated by what? This is where we find evidence of violent disagreement. To clarify matters, I want to identify and briefly describe several important senses of "direct" that have helped shape our understanding of perceptual knowledge. They are (1) "Direct" as Non-Inferential Perception; (2) "Direct" as Unmediating by Objects of Perception; (3) "Direct" as Conceptually Unmediated Perception; (4) "Direct" as Independent Verification of Perceptual Beliefs; and (5) "Direct" as Perception of What is Epistemically Prior.", pages = "1-16(16)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/gps/2001/00000062/00000001/art00001" }