Morton 7: "There are things, and then there's thing data. Raindrops are wet and splashy and spherical, but this data is not the actual raindrop--it's how you access the raindrop when it falls on your human head." (Morton gives this a Kant citation—Critique of Pure Reason—so I guess he is summarizing Kant's argument there)
8: "Raindrops aren't really weird all by themselves: there is a gap, but it's not in the raindrop [...] the gap is in the difference between the (human) subject and everything else"
the "weak correlationist gap" (9)
this creates a problem, in Morton's estimation, where you can't quite determine whether objects "always coincide with their data" or "never coincide with their data" (8)
he treats this as Kant accepting Hume's "sabotage" on the concept "that cause and effect were easy to identify metaphysical concepts" (see notes on causality elsewhere)
Morton argues that "this is exactly the logic of modern science" [...] "science can never directly talk about reality, only about data"