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Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
I've downvoted this for the following reasons. Appearances are deceiving and also people may present false appearances for their own benefit. What cannot be seen is still in effect (Gravity) Etc.
In a practical demonstration, what appears to be a piece of stone. Behind it, It's sand. It's pressed together over time, precipitation of minerals causes binding. Inside there could be some old fossil. Who knows.
Let's see if we can salvage it into a reasonable statement about epistemology:
-- A woman being shown an amazing horse, upon being informed that the horse will "take you 'round the universe, and all the other places too."
I'll admit, this insight is more impressive with musical accompaniment.
I believe the intention of baiter is to refer to vague notions like spiritual domains or qualia that are somehow behind the epistemologically detectable aspects. I don't know the original context but given the sort of thing Sartre said it wouldn't surprise me if it meant something far from that in the original context.