The real object is the object so fixed in its regal aloofness that it is aking to any beholding mind that may gaze upon it. Aspectator theory of knowledge is the inevitable outcome. There have been theories which hold that mental activity inter- venes, but they have retained the old premise. They have there- fore concluded that it is impossible to know reality. Since mind intervenes, we know, according to them, only some modified semblance of the real object, some "appearance."