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

In the philosophy of Kant, phenomenon means an object as we envisage or represent it to ourselves, in opposition to the noumenon, or a thing as it is in itself.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

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

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

At the end of the chain of phenomena the theist makes a mighty jump and gains the noumenon.

From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Cohen, Chapman