noumenal
Americanadjective
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Origin of noumenal
First recorded in 1795–1805; noumen(on) + -al 1
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Spencer is careful to insist upon this relation of the phenomenal to the noumenal.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell
The first is the noumenal, the last the phenomenal.'
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman
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
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
It lies in the complete suppression of all explanation of the noumenal object in terms borrowed from the language of sensation.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
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