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• ding an sich
  ding an sich

  noun

  thing-in-itself.
• Ding an sich
  Ding an sich

  noun

  philosophy the thing in itself

ding an sich

American  

[ding ahn zikh] / ˈdɪŋ ɑn ˈzɪx /

noun

German.

dinge an sich plural

1. thing-in-itself.

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Ding an sich British  

/ dɪŋ an zɪç, dɪŋ æn sɪk /

noun

1. philosophy the thing in itself

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• dinge an sich
  plural

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Ding an sich

It is not possible for us to know 'the thing in itself,' the Ding an sich in Kant's phrase, which is the external factor in any sensation or perception.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

Both agreed in the unknown nature of the Ding an sich, but this was to the Pyrrhonist the end of all his philosophy; to Kant, however, the beginning.

From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills

In either case the noumenon, the Ding an sich, the thing in itself, escaped.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

And this meaning is retained in the Kantian philosophy, in which the noumenon is identical with the Ding an sich.

From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Mansel, Henry Longueville

It has no direct reference to the woman as voter, as doctor, as lawyer, as the competitor of man; the subject of interest is woman as woman, the Ding an sich of German philosophical slang.

From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)