man is a helpless being in an unintelligible universe. Hume attempted to destroy the concept of causality in the objective world. He argued that because all of our knowledge comes from experience, we couldnt have any knowledge of causality because we do not experience causality. According to Hume, what we refer to as causality is simply our habit of associating events because of experiencing them together, but this does not mean that the events have any necessary connection. Experiences of contiguity, priority, and constant conjunction do not imply a necessary connection between objects. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) agreed with Hume regarding the inability to see or prove causality in the objective (i.e., noumenal) world, but said that people will always experience the world in causal networks because causality is a feature of the subjective (i.e., phenomenal) world. Kant believed that men are cut off from the objective world and can never know the world in itself (i.e., as it is). However, the human mind has fundamental concepts, categories, or filters built into it through which man cognizes the world. Men structure the world that they experience so that it conforms to the human mind. Therefore, men never know things in themselves (i.e., as they really are) only as they appear given the method of mans cognitive operations. Reality as perceived by mans mind is distorted according to the nature of mans conceptual faculty. Mans basic concepts (e.g., causality, time, space, entity, quality, quantity, etc.) do not stem from experience or reality