Kant's Critique of Pure Reason establishes that efficient causation is a category applicable only within possible experience, not to a supposed cause of the empirical world as a whole.

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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.
Possible experience(describing the boundary of what we can know): In Kant's philosophy, anything that could potentially be observed or experienced by a human being within the limits of how human minds work.
category(Aristotelian usage as discussed in the passage): A predicate, per Aristotle's usage; the term 'predicate' can refer to realities, concepts, or linguistic terms.

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