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.
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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
They seem to be in a realm of things-in-themselves.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Scientific method is indifferent to a world of things-in-themselves, or to the previous condition of philosophic servitude of those to whom its teachings are addressed.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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
This outside world is constructed by him from the contents of the inside sounds, which differ as widely from things-in-themselves as language, the symbol, must always differ from the thing it symbolizes.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
