Kant's critical philosophy establishes that efficient causation is a category of the understanding applied to appearances, not a constitutive feature of physical definitions of natural kinds.

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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).
Category of the understanding(mental structures applied to experience): A basic mental tool or framework that your mind uses to organize and make sense of experience—like how you automatically understand that things have causes, or that objects exist in space.
Constitutive feature(as what inter-subjectivity is NOT, according to this reading): An essential part that is necessary for something to be what it is—remove it and the thing no longer exists as that thing.
Critical philosophy(Windelband's conception): The science of necessary and universal values that explicates the system of absolute values and reveals the grounds of normative appraisal and valid judgment.

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