noumenal
Americanadjective
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Origin of noumenal
First recorded in 1795–1805; noumen(on) + -al 1
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In his treatment of the philosophy of science we are never far from the noumenal Source of phenomena.
From Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan
No shekinah remains within for a mysterious "conscience" to inject into this fact-world insights drawn from a higher world of noumenal, or absolute, reality.
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus Matthew Jones
Thus Kant distinguished the two selves as rational and empirical, just as he distinguished the two egos as the noumenal or real and the phenomenal from the metaphysical standpoint.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
For practical purposes, it must be admitted that the inward possession of such a noumenal libertine does not amount to much for people whose actual existence is made up of nothing but definitely regulated phenomena.
From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley
Comte was never willing to face the fact that the very existence of knowledge has a noumenal as well as a phenomenal side.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
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