noumenon
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noumena
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the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content.
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a thing in itself, as distinguished from a phenomenon or thing as it appears.
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Kantianism. something that can be the object only of a purely intellectual, nonsensuous intuition.
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(in the philosophy of Kant) a thing as it is in itself, not perceived or interpreted, incapable of being known, but only inferred from the nature of experience Compare phenomenon See also thing-in-itself
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the object of a purely intellectual intuition
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Origin of noumenon
1790–1800; < Greek nooúmenon a thing being perceived, noun use of neuter of present participle passive of noeîn to perceive; akin to nous
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Glassley tries also to grasp something beyond: the noumenon, an ineffable inner reality in things that cannot be discerned by the senses.
From Nature ● Feb. 5, 2018
Even if he does not know it as a noumenon he can investigate it as a phenomenon.
From Thoughts on Religion by Charles Gore
It is a noumenon and belongs properly to the unknowable—that is to say, according to the sense in which it is understood.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
The "colligation" of the facts, to use Whewell's phrase, is not a phenomenon, but a noumenon.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
He contents himself with saying we must acknowledge the reality of an unknown something which is the cause of all things,—the noumenon of all phenomena.
From What is Darwinism? by Charles Hodge
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
It seems clear that, on Kant's principles, we ought not to be able to say anything whatever of noumena.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
But this nature constantly exhibits its dependence upon underlying noumena that must therefore transcend the laws given by the understanding.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
"I seek after noumena," repeated Chaffery with great satisfaction, and gesticulated with his hand, waving away everything but that.
From Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
With Kant, as has been seen, the categories were still subjective, not as being forms of the individual subject, but as having over against them the world of noumena to which they were inapplicable.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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