noumenon

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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

Kant’s term “noumenon” refers to a “thing in itself”—Ding an sich—an objective reality that will always be inaccessible to human perception.

From Scientific American

Glassley tries also to grasp something beyond: the noumenon, an ineffable inner reality in things that cannot be discerned by the senses.

From Nature

The “Kritik” of Kant bears upon the subject as well as the object; according to it both the one and the other are unknowable and incomprehensible noumena.

From Project Gutenberg

They wrote against substance assumed as the “noumenon lying underneath all phenomena—the substratum supporting all qualities—the something in which all accidents inhere.”

From Project Gutenberg