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

Faith cure is dependence upon the human mind itself, upon the noumenon, instead of the phenomenon.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning—which is a phenomenon.

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose

Kant left nothing of the material world but an indescribable noumenon, which did not even exist in space.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

The fetich of the savage is the noumenon of the Greek, the God of the theologian, the First Cause of the metaphysician, the Unknowable of Spencer.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green