thing-in-itself
reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness.: Compare noumenon (def. 3).
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How to use thing-in-itself in a sentence
As a philosopher, he is interesting for his criticism of the theory of the “thing-in-itself” (Ding-an-sich).
As thing-in-itself, the Will is exempt even from the first of the forms of knowledge, the form of being 'object for a subject.'
Schopenhauer | Thomas WhittakerFor the will, though the nearest we can get to the thing-in-itself, is in truth a partially phenomenalised expression of this.
Schopenhauer | Thomas WhittakerOn the other hand, everything as thing-in-itself is free; for 'freedom' means only non-subjection to that law.
Schopenhauer | Thomas WhittakerUltimately, freedom is a mystery, and takes us beyond even will as the name for the thing-in-itself.
Schopenhauer | Thomas Whittaker
British Dictionary definitions for thing-in-itself
(in the philosophy of Kant) an element of the noumenal rather than the phenomenal world, of which the senses give no knowledge but whose bare existence can be inferred from the nature of experience
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Cultural definitions for thing-in-itself
A notion in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. A thing-in-itself is an object as it would appear to us if we did not have to approach it under the conditions of space and time.
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