noumenon
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Glassley tries also to grasp something beyond: the noumenon, an ineffable inner reality in things that cannot be discerned by the senses.
From Nature ● Feb. 5, 2018
It is a noumenon and belongs properly to the unknowable—that is to say, according to the sense in which it is understood.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
But don't you think, Ont," Upt replied, "that you are confusing the noumenon with the phenomenon?
From The Unthinking Destroyer by W. E. Terry
In the philosophy of Kant, phenomenon means an object as we envisage or represent it to ourselves, in opposition to the noumenon, or a thing as it is in itself.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
We cannot think of a noumenon as a substance, for the notions of substance and quality have been declared to be only a scheme for the ordering of phenomena.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
Those kinds of questions, and that kind of connection to the noumena of travel, would never arise from a downloaded file on a digital device.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
Now what may we affirm of noumena without departing from a scientific or objective mode of philosophising?
From A Candid Examination of Theism by George John Romanes
That is to say, it is not limited by, but rather limits, sensibility, by giving the name of noumena to things, not considered as phenomena, but as things in themselves.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
It seems clear that, on Kant's principles, we ought not to be able to say anything whatever of noumena.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
In all his stories you will find this same concern with the inextricable movement of phenomena and noumena between event and event, this same curiosity as to first causes and ultimate effects.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
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