[MD] Quick one: causation

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[dmb]
> Things in themselves are 
> objective. They exist regardless of our perception of them. All the subject can 
> know is their effect on our senses, on our subjective experience of them.
> the implication is that there will 
> always be an epistemic gap between appearance and reality.
> by contrast, experience is reality and there is no such gap.

The truth is somewhere in between--sometimes we can bridge the gap, sometimes not.
Craig