I try to explain why indirect realism is tempting and offer an alternative famously offered by Leibniz but not much talked about these days.
direct realism
perspectivism
monads
J. S. Mill
phenomenalism
immaterialism
Wittgenstein
Tractatus
C. S. Peirce
redundancy theory of truth
settlement of belief
personal continuum
William James
Ernst Mach
A. J. Ayer
language truth and logic
hard problem of consciousness