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

They wholly depend for their significance upon the laws of thought and the correspondence that exists between the spiritual and material worlds, between the subject and object of our consciousness, the noumenon and phenomenon.

From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial

And this meaning is retained in the Kantian philosophy, in which the noumenon is identical with the Ding an sich.

From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Mansel, Henry Longueville

Now this necessity, it is objectivity itself; it is the only noumenon that we are authorised to seek behind phenomena in Nature, and behind the manifestations of pure reason in spirit.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste

But don't you think, Ont," Upt replied, "that you are confusing the noumenon with the phenomenon?

From The Unthinking Destroyer by Terry, W. E.