 A contemporary version of descriptivism is Levy’s (2012, 2015) and Toon’s (2012) so-called direct-representation view. This view shares with the fiction view of models  (Section 2.2)  the reliance on Walton’s pretense theory, but uses it in a different way. The main difference is that the views discussed earlier see modeling as introducing a vehicle of representation, the model, that is distinct from the target, and they see the problem as elucidating what kind of thing the model is. On the direct-representation view there are no models distinct from the target; there are only model-descriptions and targets, with no models in-between them. Modeling, on this view, consists in providing an imaginative description of real things. A model-description prescribes imaginings about the real system; the ideal pendulum, for instance, prescribes model-users to imagine the real spring as perfectly elastic and the bob as a point mass. This approach avoids the above problems because the identity conditions for models are given by the conditions for games of make-believe (and not by the syntax of a description) and property ascriptions take place in pretense. There are, however, questions about how this account deals with models that have no target (like models of the ether or four-sex populations), and about how models thus understood deal with idealizations. For a discussion of these points, see Frigg and Nguyen (2016), Poznic (2016), and Salis (forthcoming).