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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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Noun Inflected Forms

• dinge an sich
  plural

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Ding an sich

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 Henry Longueville Mansel

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 James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead

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 Mary Mills Patrick

But then there is the Ding an sich, the Noumenon, or Kantian equivalent for the substance of the soul.

From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley

It was the Ding an sich that interested me, or as it related itself to her, and not the least as it related itself to you.

From Questionable Shapes by William Dean Howells