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

The "colligation" of the facts, to use Whewell's phrase, is not a phenomenon, but a noumenon.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

Reason and revelation declare that God is both noumenon and phenomena,—the first and only cause.

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker

In either case the noumenon, the Ding an sich, the thing in itself, escaped.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

At the end of the chain of phenomena the theist makes a mighty jump and gains the noumenon.

From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Cohen, Chapman