noumenon
noun
the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content.
noumena
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pluralof noumenon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Those kinds of questions, and that kind of connection to the noumena of travel, would never arise from a downloaded file on a digital device.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
The various awe-compelling phenomena soon ceased to have any connection with the anthropomorphic noumena they had begotten.
From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
In the first place, all noumena and transcendent reals are to be rejected as means of explanation, and definition is to be wholly in terms of experienced elements, as experienced.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
Conceptions may be logically compared without the trouble of inquiring to what faculty their objects belong, whether as noumena, to the understanding, or as phenomena, to sensibility.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
All noumena are there before we arrive at an understanding of them.
From The Unthinking Destroyer by W. E. Terry
