 Anscombe maintained that certain philosophical views look inescapable only if we conflate these two distinct senses. Idealism is the view that we see only sense data, taking what is the intentional object of perception also to be the material objection of perception. On the other hand, direct realism (or what she calls ‘ordinary language philosophy’) holds that we see only material objects without any intermediaries, overlooking or dismissing the legitimate use of saying things like “Now I see stars” after getting hit on the head. They thereby ignore or misunderstand the relevance of the intentional sense of sense-perception. Thus neither idealism nor direct realism recognizes the importance of the distinction between two ways of thinking about verbs of sense-perception. Both views thus fail to recognize the distinct intentionality of sensation.