 The projection posited by this account has the result that the intentional content of visual experience represents external objects as possessing qualities that belong, in fact, only to regions of the visual field. By “gilding or staining all natural objects with the colors borrowed from internal sentiments”, as Hume puts it, the mind “raises in a manner a new creation”. (Boghossian &amp; Velleman 1989 [1997: 95]) 