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
Coexistence and sequence, therefore, may be affirmed or denied not only between phenomena, but between noumena, or between a noumenon and phenomena.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill
He contents himself with saying we must acknowledge the reality of an unknown something which is the cause of all things,—the noumenon of all phenomena.
From What is Darwinism? by Charles Hodge
Still, the proposition as commonly understood does not assert that alone; it asserts that the Thing in itself, the noumenon Socrates, was existing, and doing or experiencing those various facts during the same time.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
By Ontology we may designate the standing controversies of the intellectual powers—perception, innate ideas, nominalism versus realism, and noumenon versus phenomenon.
From Practical Essays by Alexander Bain
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
The only meeting point of different minds is found in the inaccessible domain of the noumena.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
Or, in other words, he shows that the postulation of phenomena necessitates the further postulation of noumena of which phenomena are the manifestations.
From A Candid Examination of Theism by George John Romanes
Nevertheless, the discovery and exposition of noumena offer a rich field for what Lewes calls "the endless variety and excitement of philosophic thought."
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Coexistence and sequence, therefore, may be affirmed or denied not only between phenomena, but between noumena, or between a noumenon and phenomena.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill
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