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
My reason is no infallible plummet to sound the sea of phenomena and touch noumena.
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
Or, in other words, so far as human consciousness is concerned, noumena must be regarded as absolute.
From A Candid Examination of Theism by George John Romanes
Consequently, when I say of beings in the world of sense that they are created, I so far regard them as noumena.
From The Critique of Practical Reason by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
Kant is not so much concerned to prove the nonexistence of noumena, things-in-themselves, as he is to prove that the very conception is an empty one.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
