 These descriptions of sense data focus on the basic visual properties color and shape: the facts that we are seeing a table, a coaster, and a daisy are not, in the usual sense-data theories, part of what is given. Typically, the sense data are just patches with a shape and a color; thus, if the daisy were partly obscured by a mug that had been placed on the coaster, there would be two green shapes among the sense data, on either side of the mug-shape, with no notion that the one belonged with the other. Viewers typically are, of course, aware that specific objects are present. In that case, the theory says that they have gone beyond their sense data to perceive objects or things of various kinds (table, coaster, flower), as opposed to the bare shape and color of each sense datum.