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
Still, the proposition as commonly understood does not assert that alone; it asserts that the Thing in itself, the noumenon Socrates, was existing, and doing or experiencing those various facts during the same time.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
They wholly depend for their significance upon the laws of thought and the correspondence that exists between the spiritual and material worlds, between the subject and object of our consciousness, the noumenon and phenomenon.
From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial
The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning—which is a phenomenon.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
It traces, by the process of contemplation as it were, the relation of man, "the known," the manifested, the phenomenon, to "the unknown," the unmanifested, the noumenon.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
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
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
The germ of the conception of what the philosopher speaks of as the noumena, or actualities, back of phenomena or appearances, had perhaps this crude beginning.
From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams
Aries Tottle's mode, in a word, was based on noumena; Hog's on phenomena.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe
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
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