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 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
Coexistence and sequence, therefore, may be affirmed or denied not only between phenomena, but between noumena, or between a noumenon and phenomena.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by Mill, John Stuart
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
Those kinds of questions, and that kind of connection to the noumena of travel, would never arise from a downloaded file on a digital device.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
Nevertheless, the discovery and exposition of noumena offer a rich field for what Lewes calls "the endless variety and excitement of philosophic thought."
From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
The only meeting point of different minds is found in the inaccessible domain of the noumena.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
Or, in other words, he shows that the postulation of phenomena necessitates the further postulation of noumena of which phenomena are the manifestations.
From A Candid Examination of Theism by Romanes, George John
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 The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
