noumenal
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- nonnoumenal adjective
- nonnoumenally adverb
- noumenalism noun
- noumenalist noun
- noumenality noun
- noumenally adverb
Etymology
Origin of noumenal
First recorded in 1795–1805; noumen(on) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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The first is the noumenal, the last the phenomenal.'
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman
Kant distinguished the noumenal from the phenomenal ego.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)
Sir William Hamilton, following Reid, asserts a natural Realism, or noumenal existence within the phenomenal; but he utterly denies that either of these authenticates the Infinite and Absolute.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 by Various
It is not to be conceived of as anything occult or noumenal, but merely as a special mode of the uniformity of Nature or experience.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
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 Moore, Edward Caldwell
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