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Clément Rosset’s book L’Objet singulier criticizes the generality of our representations of reality, which lack its singularity by projecting illusory identities onto its objects. The author then runs the risk of defending an unsatisfactory ineffabilism into which many contemporary direct realists still fall. But we can compare these views with Concepts by Jocelyn Benoist and his defense of the adequacy of our representations to the singularity of reality. This allows us to retain Rosset’s healthy skeptical prudence against the temptation of many contemporary “new realists” to blur the differences between the intentional and the real, without making the gap between these two levels an insurmountable fracture for knowledge.