noumenon

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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 deeper our knowledge of things goes, the more we see the perfect conformity of the apparent to the real, the more faithfully do phenomena translate 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

Biology as such has of course nothing to do with "the Ultimate Reality behind manifestations" or with the "implied noumenon."

From Project Gutenberg