Morton 7: "Correlationism means that there are things in themselves [...] but that they aren't 'realized' until correlated by a correlator"
rephrased, also 7: "things exist in some inaccessible sense, but things aren't strictly real until accessed by a correlator"
for Kant, the "correlator" is the "transcendental subject" (humans)
"strong correlationism" (Hume) is the idea that the correlator is the "grand decider of what gets to count as real"
(Hegel sees the correlator as "Spirit" and Heidegger as "Dasein")
Strong correlationism sounds weird, but Morton suggest that it is at the root of the "culturalist" idea in leftist thought that "culture (or discourse or ideology or...) makes things real"
Weak correlationism--see separate note--is at the root of classical scientific inquiry