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ABSTRACT:
Allow me to tell you a true story, related to me by Paolo BOZZI.
In 1943-1944, Wolfgang METZGER was serving in the army in Cassino, Italy. One day he went to the toilet in the barracks where his company was quartered, and when he was done he flushed the toilet. At that very moment a grenade hit the barracks, so that METZGER got the impression that by flushing the toilet he had been the cause of the disaster. METZGER saw such causality, just as one sees a chair or a color.
One way to straighten out the whole matter would be to claim that METZGER had been victim of some kind of optical illusion. But if we try to look into it more carefully, we realize that deep in METZGERs toilet lies a radical attack against the last stronghold of KANTs transcendental philosophy, namely the fact that there is at least one thing which is not in the world but which is supplied by thought, namely causality.
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