In the Critique of Pure Reason (A190/B235), Kant defines causation as a rule governing the temporal succession of appearances, making it strictly appearance-relative by its own definition.

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A190/B235(citation notation): A standard way of citing Kant's work: the 'A' refers to the first edition of the book and 'B' to the second edition, with the numbers being page references so readers can find the exact passage.
Appearances(Kantian transcendental idealism): Objects as they are given through sensible intuition and structured by the categories, as opposed to things in themselves (objects as they are independently of human cognition).
Critique of Pure Reason(as the specific work where Kant discussed these ideas): Kant's major philosophical book (published 1781) examining the limits of human knowledge and arguing that our minds actively structure our experience of the world.
Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.

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