 At Level 1, then, the intentionalist holds that to experience a snow-covered churchyard is to directly perceptually represent such an object (i.e. to represent such an object but not in virtue of representing another more “immediate” object). At Level 2, this is put to work in explaining phenomenal character. In relation to our example, why is this a case of things appearing any way at all to you, and why is it a case of things appearing white to you? Here the intentionalist appeals to the experience’s directly representing things in a certain way, and specifically to experience’s directly representing whiteness in the environment, to account for this. The character of your experience is explained by the specific way in which your experience directly represents the world.