things-in-themselves
- plural of thing-in-itself.
Example Sentences
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The feelings are therefore the things-in-themselves, the ultimate substances of which consciousness and gross matter are made up.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
It would still remain possible for other methods of approach than this transcendental pragmatism, for instinct, perhaps, or for revelation, to bring us into contact with things-in-themselves.
From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George
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 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 Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)
But the things-in-themselves which the sense-impressions symbolize, the 'reality,' as the metaphysicians wish to call it, at the other end of the nerve, remains unknown and is unknowable.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart
