> the experience of understanding chinese is first-person phenomenology; > and, in knowing that, we know *that* some meta-phenomenal (experiencer > independent) object or set of objects is responsible for generating or > causing the phenomenon in question; How is it that we know *that* there is a cause and not *that* it "just is"? If, in fact we know *that* there is a cause, how do we know that the cause is objective? ========================================== Need Something? Check here: http://ludwig.squarespace.com/wittrslinks/