thing-in-itself
noun
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.
things-in-themselves
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pluralof thing-in-itself.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It has become a matter of226 serious consideration for a philosophy which is interested in a world of things-in-themselves, and the epistemological problem.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Kant demonstrated once for all our complete enslavement by phenomena and our inability to approach things-in-themselves.
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
In any case it was a work of great merit to have transferred the existence of objects beyond our ideas, of things-in-themselves, out of the region of the self-evident into the region of the problematical.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
In Kantian terminology Dialektik is the name of that portion of the Kritik d. reinen Vernunft in which Kant discusses the impossibility of applying to "things-in-themselves" the principles which are found to govern phenomena.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
Kant is not so much concerned to prove the nonexistence of noumena, things-in-themselves, as he is to prove that the very conception is an empty one.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
