My apologies if I removed a link to Dennett this was a mistake due to an apparent edit war in which reversion was taking the place of contribution The more links the merrier in this hypertext encyclopedia    Dennetts explanation of direct realism  Dennetts description of direct realism is eloquent and explains why all these diverse philosophical movements reject CM at a stroke Any naive reader will understand the philosophical position at a stroke if they read this I also rearranged the sections in the controversies section  they had become disconnected during the previous edits