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

The transcendent questions concerning the noumenon of things are unanswerable; we know ourselves, even, only as phenomena!

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

But what that something is, what is the noumenon which underlies the phenomenon, it is impossible for us to know.

From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles

In theology the fundamental problems of ontological philosophy were faced; the relationship of unity to multiplicity, of noumenon to phenomena, of God to man.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

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

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis