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

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

Still, the proposition as commonly understood does not assert that alone; it asserts that the Thing in itself, the noumenon Socrates, was existing, and doing or experiencing those various facts during the same time.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

On the contrary, he accepted it, and he has made the words "phenomenon" and "noumenon" household words in philosophy.

From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart

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 Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification by Bradlaugh, Charles