Sentence:  Whitehead is here questioning David Hume 's understanding of the nature of experience ; he is questioning , also , every epistemology which stems from Hume 's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy , and that causal efficacy is something <WSD>intellectually</WSD> imputed to the world , not directly perceived . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  in an intellectual manner