 The second version of the fiction view explicitly focuses on representation. Most theories of representation we have encountered so far posit that there are model systems and construe scientific representation as a relation between two entities, the model system and the target system. Toon calls this the indirect view of representation (2012: 43). Indeed, Weisberg (2007) views this indirectness as the defining feature of modelling (see also Knuuttila and Loettgers 2017). This view contrasts with what Toon (2012: 43) and Levy (2015: 790) call a direct view of representation. This view does not recognise model systems instead aims to explain representation as a form of direct description. On this view, models provide an “imaginative description of real things” (Levy 2012: 741) such as actual pendula, and there is no such thing as a model system of which the pendulum description is literally true (Toon 2012: 43–44).